Minneapolis ( CNN ) -- A federal jury found two Minnesota women guilty Thursday of raising money for Al-Shabaab , the al Qaeda-affiliated militant group in Somalia . According to the federal indictment , Amina Farah Ali , 35 , and Hawo Mohamed Hassan , 64 , of Rochester , Minnesota , solicited funds in ways that included going door-to-door `` under the false pretense that the funds were for the poor and needy . '' The two were charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization . U.S. officials designated Al-Shabaab a foreign terrorist organization in 2008 . Ali was also found guilty of 12 other counts for , according to the indictment , sending more than $ 8,000 in 2008 and 2009 . It 's not the first time Minnesota has been connected with Al-Shabaab , which has been waging a war against Somalia 's government in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law , or sharia . In recent years , approximately 20 young men -- most of them Somali-Americans -- have traveled from the Minneapolis area to Somalia to train with Al-Shabaab , and a number of them have gone on to fight with the terrorist organization , U.S. officials said . Several of the young men are now facing federal terrorism charges because of their alleged involvement with Al-Shabaab . The alleged offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight for Al-Shabaab , attending terrorist training camps operated by the group and fighting on behalf of it , federal prosecutors said in a release . Somali-American man admits to helping bring fighters to Somalia . Somalia has not had a stable government since 1991 , and fighting between the rebels and government troops has added to the humanitarian crisis in the nation on the Horn of Africa . Al-Shabaab has recruited more than 40 Muslim-Americans and 20 Canadians , according to U.S. Rep. Peter King , chairman of the Homeland Security Committee . Three Muslim-Americans have carried out suicide bombings in Somalia , King said . Two of those bombers were from Minneapolis : Shirwa Ahmed , 27 , who was the first confirmed American suicide bomber in U.S. history , and Farah Mohamed Beledi , also 27 . Ahmed killed himself and 29 others in the fall of 2008 . The FBI identified Beledi as one of two suicide bombers responsible for killing two African Union soldiers in Somalia in May . CNN 's John Fricke contributed to this report .
Indictment says women solicited funds under pretense that they were for the needy . A federal jury convicted them Thursday . TL;DR The indictment alleges a scheme to defraud donors of more than $700,000 by promising "charitable contributions" and then charging people with crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering or identity theft.