A Wakefield man recently pleaded guilty to a charge he faced after being accused of trying to help ISIS raise money when he was a teenager, according to the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Mateo Ventura, 20, pleaded guilty on Oct. 15 to one count of concealment of financing of terrorism, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in a press release not made public until Nov. 13, after the federal government reopened from a 43-day shutdown.
Ventura, who was 18 at the time, had been charged by complaint in June 2023 and a federal grand jury indicted him in October 2023…