Newburgh Four
12/30/2023 12:20 AM UTC by Jack
On May 20, 2009, US law enforcement arrested four men in connection with a fake plot concocted by a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant to shoot down military airplanes flying out of an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, and blow up two synagogues in the Riverdale community of the Bronx using weapons supplied by the FBI. (Wikipedia) This event was named the 2009 Bronx Terrorism Plot.
Three of the four men, Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen, have been ordered to be released by Federal District Judge Colleen McMahon.
During the hearing, Judge McMahon made the following statements:
“The real lead conspirator was the United States.”
“...the sentence was the product of a fictitious plot to do things that these men had never remotely contemplated, and that were never going to happen.”
She excoriated the government for sending “a villain” of an informant “to troll among the poorest and weakest of men for ‘terrorists’ who might prove susceptible to an offer of much-needed cash in exchange for committing a faux crime”.
Three of the four men, Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen, have been ordered to be released by Federal District Judge Colleen McMahon.
During the hearing, Judge McMahon made the following statements:
“The real lead conspirator was the United States.”
“...the sentence was the product of a fictitious plot to do things that these men had never remotely contemplated, and that were never going to happen.”
She excoriated the government for sending “a villain” of an informant “to troll among the poorest and weakest of men for ‘terrorists’ who might prove susceptible to an offer of much-needed cash in exchange for committing a faux crime”.