![]() McMahon slashed the three’s 25-year mandatory minimum sentence to just time served plus 90 days. She blasted the government for using “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.” It was “heinous” of the men to agree to participate in what she called the government’s “made-for-TV move,” she wrote, but added that “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.” David Williams, one of the three who was ordered to be released, was convicted with the others in 2010. “The real lead conspirator was the United States,” McMahon wrote. In her ruling, McMahon slammed the FBI’s sting operation that snared the men, whom she wrote were “hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals” that were set up by the feds and their unreliable informant. Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen - three of the four men who became known as the “Newburgh Four” - were granted their request for compassionate release by US District Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday. Three of the four Muslim converts convicted of a post-9/11 plot to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down planes were ordered to be released from prison by a judge who declared their 25-year sentences “unduly harsh and unjust” - and blamed the FBI for radicalizing them. ‘Clash of Civilizations’: Why Russia can’t beat Ukraine Why Israel shouldn’t return corpses of Palestine terrorists Japanese social media users mock 9/11 in response to ‘Barbenheimer’ memesĬongress pushes law to make it easier for 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia
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