A Staten Island man who prosecutors say bankrolled a 3-D printed “ghost gun” factory has been convicted in Brooklyn federal court, ending a trial that pulled back the curtain on a homegrown pipeline of untraceable weapons.
On Thursday, a federal jury found 33-year-old Staten Island resident Brandon Nudelman guilty on firearms-trafficking and obstruction charges after a six-day trial. When he is sentenced, Nudelman faces up to 30 years in prison.
The jury convicted Nudelman on all three counts in a second superseding indictment after a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly. Prosecutors say the scheme ran from January through September 2023 and involved manufacturing and selling unserialized firearms and machine-gun conversion devices. Nudelman faces a maximum of 30 years at sentencing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York…