Another FBI Instigated "Terror" Plot Doesn't Take Wing
It's fun to stay abreast of these contrived schemes, cooked up by the spooks and inevitably involving mopes who'd be too chicken to do anything the FBI prods them to do.
NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment
"WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken.
Defense lawyers demanded Thursday in federal court that prosecutors turn over evidence of any payments, promises or other inducements offered by an informant who infiltrated the group.
The four men are accused of plotting to destroy two synagogues in the heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down planes at an Air National Guard base about 50 miles north of New York City. Because the FBI was in on the plot, the bombs and missiles the men obtained were useless, prosecutors say.
The men have pleaded not guilty and are being held without bail. One of them is a petty criminal who spent a day in 2002 snatching purses and shooting at people with an airgun, while three have histories of drug convictions.
Theodore Green, attorney for defendant David Williams, 28, mentioned the entrapment defense, which generally claims that a person was enticed to do something illegal that he would not otherwise have done.
Among the enticements the defense lawyers said they had already heard about were checks of up to $25,000, gifts to the men's families and "some kind of charge account" at a Crown fried chicken store in Newburgh, where the four men live.
"My client could go there and not pay," said lawyer Marilyn Reader, who is defending Laguerre Payen, 27.
Susanne Brody, the lawyer for Onta Williams, 32, said that when viewing government surveillance video, there was hardly a scene "where you don't see eating going on."
"Alicia McWilliams, David Williams' aunt, said the four men could not have organized a sophisticated plot without direction.
"They couldn't do a barbecue," she said."
NYC synagogue bomb defendants may claim entrapment
"WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Four ex-convicts accused of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military planes apparently will claim they were lured into the conspiracy with gifts including cash and fried chicken.
Defense lawyers demanded Thursday in federal court that prosecutors turn over evidence of any payments, promises or other inducements offered by an informant who infiltrated the group.
The four men are accused of plotting to destroy two synagogues in the heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx and to shoot down planes at an Air National Guard base about 50 miles north of New York City. Because the FBI was in on the plot, the bombs and missiles the men obtained were useless, prosecutors say.
The men have pleaded not guilty and are being held without bail. One of them is a petty criminal who spent a day in 2002 snatching purses and shooting at people with an airgun, while three have histories of drug convictions.
Theodore Green, attorney for defendant David Williams, 28, mentioned the entrapment defense, which generally claims that a person was enticed to do something illegal that he would not otherwise have done.
Among the enticements the defense lawyers said they had already heard about were checks of up to $25,000, gifts to the men's families and "some kind of charge account" at a Crown fried chicken store in Newburgh, where the four men live.
"My client could go there and not pay," said lawyer Marilyn Reader, who is defending Laguerre Payen, 27.
Susanne Brody, the lawyer for Onta Williams, 32, said that when viewing government surveillance video, there was hardly a scene "where you don't see eating going on."
"Alicia McWilliams, David Williams' aunt, said the four men could not have organized a sophisticated plot without direction.
"They couldn't do a barbecue," she said."
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