A federal judge this week sentenced a Queens woman to 15 years in prison for her role in a bomb-making plot that would have targeted the United States, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

The woman, Asia Siddiqui, 35, was one of two people who were arrested and charged in April 2015 after a months long undercover investigation found that they had discussed the advantages of different types of bombs and obtained four propane gas tanks, according to the authorities.

In August 2019, Ms. Siddiqui and the other defendant, Noelle Velentzas, 32, pleaded guilty to a charge of teaching and distributing information about weapons of mass destruction, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement on Thursday.

Ms. Velentzas is still awaiting sentencing, the office said.

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