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Men convicted in post-9/11 sting were ‘easily manipulated, petty criminals’ caught up overzealous FBI scheme, judge says
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Men convicted in post-9/11 sting were ‘easily manipulated, petty criminals’ caught up overzealous FBI scheme, judge says
Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen — three of the men known as the “Newburgh Four" — were “hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty
Three men ensnarled in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison by a judge who deemed their lengthy sentences “unduly harsh and unjust” and decried the FBI's role in radicalizing them in a plot to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes. Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen — three of the men known as the “Newburgh Four" — were “hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals" caught up in a scheme more than a decade ago driven by overzealous FBI agents and a dodgy in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Three men convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison by a judge who deemed their lengthy sentences “unduly harsh and unjust”
Three men convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison