Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin here with another one of those stories that reminds us isis is determined to inspire a terror attack on our soil. This one comes from massachusetts. A young man busted by the feds. They say he was inspired by isis and was hatching a plot to explode bombs in College Cafeterias. In this case the suspect was already on authorities radar. It turns out his father, a police captain, sounded the alarm and turned him in. Our ron mott has details. Reporter federal officials in boston announced the arrest of 23yearold alexander ciccolo, the son of Boston Police captain robert ciccolo. A Police Source told nbc news captain ciccolo reported his son to the fbi after learning he was allegedly plotting an isisinspired attack. According to court documents, ciccolo goes by the name Ali Al Amriki and was arrested july 4th after receiving four guns from an undercover agent and buying a pressure cooker. The governm
Danny savalas. Let me return to ken dilanian to start. Just crossing the wires a few moments ago. What have we learned from this indictment . Were looking ahead to comments from Deputy Attorney general rod rosen stein here in about 15 minutes time. The department of justice issuing Media Advisory alerting us to that. What have we learned thus far from this 37page indictment. This just landed but as you said 13 defendants are charged and among the charges is conspiracy to defraud the United States. They accused, these russians, of assuming american identities. Accused of election fraud. This is all part of a russian interfere warfare operation thats been identified but now Robert Mueller is filing criminal charges. And none of these people these people are presumably in russia and may never appear in an American Court but its a way for Robert Mueller and the u. S. Government to send a message to both identify and name and shame the russian entities that carry this out. And to send a mes
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