NEW YORK (AP) – A bookstore owner was sentenced to 13 years in prison Monday for his role in a conspiracy to fund terrorist groups abroad.

Abdulrahman Farhane, 52, was sentenced by Federal District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan after he pleaded guilty in November to money laundering and lying to federal agents.

The sentencing was the first in a case that also ensnared a New York musician and karate expert, a Florida doctor and a Washington cab driver.

Prosecutors said Farhane and the musician, Tarik Shah, spoke with an FBI informant in December 2001 about a plot to help terrorists in Afghanistan buy weapons and communications equipment to fight American soldiers.

Shah, and the cab driver, Mahmud Faruq Brent Al Mutazzim, have pleaded guilty to agreeing to provide material support to terrorist organizations and are awaiting sentencing. The doctor, Rafiq Abdus Sabir, is scheduled to go to trial next week.

Judge Preska did not reduce the sentence the government and Farhane agreed upon when he pleaded guilty. She said Farhane had shown “perhaps less remorse” than she had seen in other cases, and had admitted crimes that Congress has designated for severe punishment.

Farhane’s lawyer, Michael Hueston, argued that his client should be treated leniently because another man convicted of aiding Al Qaeda, David Hicks, recently reached a deal to serve a nine-month sentence in his hometown of Adelaide, Australia, after a military proceeding at the American naval base at Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay.

Preska said the cases were not comparable.

Prosecutors argued the sentence was lenient in that Farhane faced 30 years to life in prison had he been convicted at trial.