https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/30/in-rebuke-of-feds-judge-frees-east-bay-man-once-accused-of-terrorism/

SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice had failed to prove something it insisted for years was true: that a Fremont man tried to travel to Syria in 2015, to join a terrorist organization.

U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick ruled that while 25-year-old Adam Shafi used a fraudulent $2,200 check to travel to the Middle East, he hadn’t done so with the intent to assist a Syrian terrorist group known as Al Nusra Front. The judge’s ruling ends a nearly four-year saga that included widespread media coverage, a mistrial and wildly different theories from both sides.