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Judge orders 3 of ‘Newburgh Four’ released from prison, rips FBI for ‘inventing’ conspiracy

2023-07-31

[NYP] 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.

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.
Clinton appointee
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.

"The real lead conspirator was the United States," McMahon wrote.

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."

Unmentioned is the FBI informant, Pakistani Shahed Hussain, who needed FBI help dealing with his immigration fraud and other criminal fraud charges; also the ringleader he recruited, James Cromitie, seething with hate and baseless boasting, but reportedly only in it for the promised $250,000 and other goodies. His three friends were also promised money and stuff. Except for Mr. Payen, a mentally ill Haitian, the other three recruits are African-American.

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Four convicted over NY bomb plot

2010-10-20

[Al Jazeera] A US court has found four men guilty of placing bombs outside synagogues in New York and plotting to fire missiles at military planes.

The four defendants - Onta Williams, Laguerre Payen, James Cromitie and David Williams IV - face up to life in prison following their trial in Manhattan federal court on Monday.

The men were jugged in a sting operation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in May 2009, as they planted what they thought were bombs in two cars parked outside synagogues in New York City's Bronx borough, US prosecutors said.

Defence lawyers said the men were not guilty because they were entrapped in a plan devised by the FBI and orchestrated by the confidential informant, Shahed Hussein.
But the fact remains that they didn't have to plant bombs, doesn't it?
In addition to planting the bombs, the four intended to shoot down military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, with stinger surface-to-air missiles, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Cromitie, accused of recruiting the three others, was motivated by anti-Semitism and wanted to participate in jihad.

Cromitie and David Williams were found guilty on all eight charges. The other two defendants - Onta Williams and Payen - were found not guilty on one of the lesser charges of attempting to murder officers and employees of the United States.

'Homegrown terrorism'
Vincent Briccetti, Cromitie's mouthpiece, declined to comment on the verdict. Susanne Brody, who represented Onta Williams, said the trial was a "miscarriage of justice". Lawyers indicated in court they will file a motion to have the verdict dismissed. An entrapment defence resulting in acquittal is extremely rare in federal terrorism-related cases.

"Homegrown terrorism is a serious threat, and today's convictions affirm our commitment to do everything we can to protect against it," Preet Bharara, a Manhattan US attorney, said in a statement. "The defendants in this case agreed to plant bombs and use missiles they thought were very real weapons of terrorism."

Al Jizz's Kristen Saloomey, reporting from New York, said "the verdict came after a lengthy trial that involved hundreds of hours of video tape evidence that showed these four men meeting, plotting and even planting the bombs outside the synagogue".

"They also purchased what they thought were stinger missiles, but as it turns out the bombs and the missiles were, in fact, fake and supplied by the FBI as part of this elaborate sting operation - which the defence argues was illegal," she said.

The trial opened in late August and jury deliberations began on October 6. The charges included conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles. Sentencing was set for March 24.

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Court hears tapes of synagogue bomb plotter

2010-08-31

James Cromitie had dozens of conversations with an informer recorded from October 2008 to May 2009. Cromitie and three other men were arrested in May 2009 on terror charges for having planted bombs outside two Bronx synagogues, plotting to fire missiles at military aircraft.

During several hours of tapes that were played in Federal District Court in Monday, Cromitie's remarks ran the gamut from boasting to complaining to threats. He whined about Jews and discussed "jumping up and killing one of them."

He bragged about acts of violence that never occured, such as "ashcan" bombing a Bronx police station. He expounded about Islam, justifications for brutality and possible targets, including a Brooklyn synagogue and a power plant. But he also talked about peace.

Way to make Islam seem a trustworthy member of our national religious rainbow, guys.

Prosecutors say that Mr. Cromitie, the leader, and the other men -- David Williams IV, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- willingly participated in a plot presented to them by the informer, Shahed Hussain. During an 11-month investigation, Hussain, using the name Maqsood, posed as a Pakistani businessman who tried to recruit the men for a non-existent terror plot. Defense lawyers claim that their clients were entrapped by the government.

Bad guys choosing to act badly when presented with the opportunity. It's hard to find sympathy for that.

In the recordings that prosecutors played for jurors, Cromitie didn't seem to need much encouragement. He talked about making "a big noise," and said he "agrees" with an imam who talked about the need to "make jihad right here in America."

Really? Which imam was that? Never mind, I'm sure the various ladies and gentlemen in black suits have him under all sorts of surveillance... and all his little friends. We'll find out one day, no doubt.

"Somebody need to send one, one great big message, bigger than the World Trade Center," he said. Hussain could be heard cautioning Mr. Cromitie not to do things for the money.

At other times, Hussain's words appeared more inflammatory. He mentioned overseas terrorism attacks of which Cromitie was unaware. Hussain also mentioned that the president's advisers were Jewish.

He's already an apostate, our president. What matters it that he also has advisers of the accursed race of pig-Jews?

Hussain testified that Cromitie talked a lot about a so-called security team that he was never able to meet. Cromitie talked about guns he had stolen from his employer, Walmart, but the chain was not selling guns at that time.

A lying jihadi? Say it ain't so!

Other recordings seemed more prescient. "Don't be surprised if one day you might see me in handcuffs again, I have zero tolerance for people who disrespect Muslims.", said Cromitie.

In another conversation, Hussain told Cromitie he did not want to be manipulative. "With your intelligence, I know you can manipulate someone," Cromitie said. "But not me, because I'm intelligent. I'm Muslim. I know how far to go. You understand?"

Q.E.D.

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Families claim NYC terror suspects are the real victims

2009-06-19

Desperate for money and wooed by a man offering cash and favors, the men accused of trying to blow up two temples and other terrorist activities had little choice but to go along with the plot, the family of three of the four men said last night at a forum sponsored by supporters. "They got themselves into something they didn't know how to get out of," said Alicia McWilliams of the Bronx, the aunt of David Williams, one of the four accused in the temple bombing plot dubbed the Newburgh Four.

Williams, 28; James Cromitie, 44; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27, have pleaded not guilty to an eight-count indictment accusing them of plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military aircraft at the Air National Guard Base at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor.

Last night, David Williams' mother and aunt, Cromitie's fiancee and Onta Williams' girlfriend appeared at the headquarters of WESPAC Foundation, a social justice organization, to talk about how their lives have been affected. Family members and friends of the accused men have labeled the case entrapment in the wake of their arrests on May 20 in the Bronx by FBI agents and New York City police. The four were described as reluctant participants in the plot who had no interest in bombing temples or harming people but because they were desperate for money went along with a man who was relentless in his recruitment of them, family members said. The man had been coming to the Newburgh mosque - where two of the accused occasionally attended Friday prayers - offering $25,000 to worshippers to join in some undertaking and talking about jihad, Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad, head imam at the mosque has said. The man turned out to to have been an FBI informant.

McWilliams, who was the only family member willing to be quoted by name at the forum, said she believes her nephew wouldn't have gone through with the plot and "probably thought they were going to get one on" the informant. "We are not like that," McWilliams said. "We're not raised that way." McWilliams and other family members said what the men were accused of trying to do was wrong, but that they would not have gotten involved had they not been desperate for money and had the FBI and informant not pursued them. "Money is at the root of all evil," McWilliams said. Herbert Hadad, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined yesterday to comment.

During a June 5 hearing in U.S. District Court, David Williams III, the father of accused plotter David Williams, said the FBI and the informant had lured his son into the plot with the promise of money. A family friend, Essence Ross, said after an earlier court hearing that the FBI's informant promised Williams $25,000 to pay for his brother's liver transplant.

The four men were arrested after they planted what they thought were C-4-based explosives outside the synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx on the night of May 20, federal authorities said. Their plan was to drive back to Orange County and shoot down the planes with a Stinger shoulder-held missile system, authorities said. The FBI had supplied the explosives and rocket launcher to an informant to give to the men. The devices were duds, federal authorities said.

WESPAC, which had members sit in support of the men at their June 5 hearing, sought donations last night for the men's family members. Nada Khader, the group's director, pledged to rally support for the men, accusing the FBI of targeting the men. "This is what makes this most vile - they are targeting the most vulnerable," she said. "They're going after people who are victims of capitalism, victims of white supremacy."

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New charges filed in NYC jihad plot

2009-06-03

Several new charges have been brought against the four New York men accused of plotting to wage a self-styled jihad by bombing synagogues and blowing U.S. military airplanes out of the sky. A federal indictment handed up Tuesday afternoon added charges of attempting the use of weapons of mass destruction within the United States and conspiracy to kill officers and employees of the United States against James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. The men already faced charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles.

They were arrested May 20 and charged through a document known as a criminal complaint, but prosecutors were procedurally required to put the allegations before a grand jury and bring an indictment for the case to continue. The indictment contains the new charges as well as the original ones. The men, all of whom are reportedly Muslims, are being held without bond and face life in prison if convicted. An arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday.

According to authorities, the men, who apparently met in prison, were exposed by an FBI informant who they thought was a member of a Pakistani terrorist group that would supply them with weapons. Mr. Cromitie told the informant, whom he met at a mosque in Newburgh, N.Y., that he wanted to do "something to America" and also hated Jews, authorities said. Mr. Cromitie said his parents had lived in Afghanistan and he was angry that the U.S. military was killing Muslims in that country and Pakistan. The two Williamses, who do not appear to be related, are also Americans; Mr. Payen is a native of Haiti.

The informant - who posed as a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed, which seeks to end India's rule of Kashmir - told Mr. Cromitie that he could get him explosives and surface-to-air guided missiles, the FBI said. After the four men hatched a plan to attack a synagogue in the Bronx and aircraft at an Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, according to the FBI, the informant sold them phony C-4 plastic explosives and Stinger surface-to-air missiles that wouldn't have worked. The men were arrested after planting the phony explosives at a synagogue, authorities said.

Since the arrest, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has criticized the FBI's tactics, questioning whether the suspected plot "may have been based more on the financial inducements of a government informant than on the predisposition to terrorism of three petty criminals and a mentally ill Haitian immigrant."

Media reports have described the men as "down and out" and "hapless." But James Casey, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Jacksonville, Fla., bureau, criticized the tone of such journalism. "I think it is important for Americans to consider that had 19 young men been arrested on September 10, 2001, with nothing more than box cutters, duct tape and a plan to fly hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Washington, D.C., landmarks, the story of those arrests might have had the same patronizing tone," Mr. Casey wrote in an editorial published in the Florida Times-Union. "Unfortunately, we know how the story unfolded on September 11th. And while the plot still seems amateurish in retrospect, in the words of the 9/11 commission report, it was 'good enough,' " he said.

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NYC terror case raises issue of Islam in jails

2009-05-23

The possibility that the alleged New York bomb plotters converted to Islam in prison and adopted radical views could provide evidence of how the criminal-justice system can be fertile ground for terrorist recruitment. Authorities said they believed all four men charged in the attack were Muslim and that some may have converted in prison. It isn't clear whether these conversions were linked to the radical views officials say they espoused while plotting to bomb two New York City synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes.

The men were arrested Wednesday in a months-long undercover operation that ended with them allegedly placing what they thought were real explosives in front of the synagogues. The plot was monitored by federal authorities who provided the suspects with fake explosives. The men remain in custody and face federal conspiracy charges. According to New York state corrections records, alleged ringleader James Cromitie and David Williams gave their religion as Muslim during their most recent prison sentences. Onta Williams listed his religion as Baptist and Laguerre Payen said he was Roman Catholic. Police believe two or more of the suspects converted to Islam while in prison.

Concern about jail-house recruitment intensified after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Authorities in the U.S. maintain the practice isn't widespread, but say they are watching closely the pattern in other parts of the world, especially in the U.K., where prison radicalization is a recognized problem. Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York City Police Department, said there wasn't a "fire hose" of people coming out of the prison system who have turned to radical Islam. Most inmates tend to follow what Mr. Silber's colleagues call "Prislam" -- religion practiced behind bars but dropped upon release. Nonetheless, he estimated about 10 inmates a year in New York are paroled and give authorities "some level of concern."

The federal Bureau of Prisons sits on the National Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes about 40 government agencies. With the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it has developed a nationwide initiative to detect and disrupt attempts to radicalize and recruit members in U.S. prisons and jails. "While we do not believe there is widespread terrorist-inspired radicalization or recruiting occurring in federal prisons, we do recognize that the potential for inmates to be radicalized is present," said Traci Billingsley, spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Prisons. Ms. Billingsley said between 5% and 6% of the federal inmate population identify as Muslims, a figure unchanged in recent years.

Authorities heightened their efforts in 2005 after a former California inmate founded a homegrown terror cell after recruiting co-conspirators in prison. "There was a real interest by the federal agencies about what else do we have going on inside those prisons and how vulnerable are those groups because they are disenfranchised," said Brian Parry, former assistant director at California Department of Corrections and a consultant for the FBI. Mr. Parry is helping to build a database to allow prisons to share intelligence with other agencies. Yehudit Barsky, director of the division on Middle East and International Terrorism at the American Jewish Committee, said the government looks "at it more like a prison-gang phenomena instead of this dangerous phenomena." For years, street gangs and white supremacists recruited members in prisons.

The criminal complaint against the New York suspects said an FBI informant met Mr. Cromitie last June at a Newburgh, N.Y., mosque. Mr. Cromitie allegedly told the informant he was upset that U.S. armed forces were killing Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that he was interested in dying as a "martyr" and doing "something to America."

Salahuddin Muhammad, imam at the mosque, has worked for more than 20 years as a chaplain at Fishkill Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Beacon, N.Y., according to the Department of Corrections. He said his message at his mosque and in prison visits is much the same: tolerance, and the need for people to take responsibility for their lives. He said he converted very few people in prison, attributing the small numbers to "bad press" that Islam receives. Mr. Muhammad said he recognized Mr. Cromitie -- who he said wasn't a mosque member -- but didn't know him or the three other accused plotters. Mr. Muhammad, who has spent time in state prison for robbery, has been an imam since 1986 and in Newburgh since 1992.

New York State has allowed imams to be chaplains since the riots at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1972, said Mr. Silber, and some offer the fundamentalist Wahabi version of Islam. Erik Kriss, spokesman for the New York Department of Correctional Services, said the arrests hadn't raised concerns that inmates are being recruited by radical groups. In two incidents in which radical imams were running Muslim services in state facilities, one was fired and the other disciplined, he said. "We're aware of the potential of the problem for this," Mr. Kriss said. "That's why we're vigilant that it doesn't become a problem." The prison system videotapes and audiotapes some religious services, while having corrections officers present at others.

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NYC terror plot suspects have lengthy criminal records

2009-05-22

The four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down military airplanes with missiles are down-and-out ex-convicts living on the margins in a faded industrial city. One is a petty criminal who spent a day in 2002 snatching purses and shooting at people with a BB gun from an SUV. His lawyer calls him "intellectually challenged." Three have histories of drug convictions, one of them for selling narcotics in a school zone. The man prosecutors portrayed as the instigator of the scheme said he smoked pot the day he planned to blow up the temples.

They went to Wal-Mart for cameras to photograph their targets and had to call around to various contacts to get guns, prosecutors said. But if they sometimes seemed amateurish, the men were dangerous people fueled by their hatred for Jews and America, prosecutors said. The plotters managed to get their hands on what they thought were lethal explosives and a surface-to-air missile system, only to find out that they were inert devices supplied by the FBI in a sting operation. "It's hard to envision a more chilling plot," assistant U.S. attorney Eric Snyder said. "These are extremely violent men."

A group of religious leaders, including rabbis, priests and an imam, were to meet Friday morning at one of the targeted synagogues, the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx, to thank authorities. Rabbi Bob Kaplan of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York said the religious leaders also plan to "stand together against poisonous hatred."

With an informant's help, the FBI monitored the plot every step of the way, including with video and audio surveillance of a home in Newburgh where the conspirators gathered, according to a criminal complaint.

James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were calm as they appeared in court Thursday, their hands shackled, to answer charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the U.S. and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles. They did not enter pleas and were held without bail; they face life in prison if convicted.

Relatives said the defendants were struggling men who worked at places such as Wal-Mart, a landscaping company and a warehouse when they weren't behind bars. Payen's lawyer said he was on medication for schizophrenia and has "a very low borderline" IQ.

David Williams' relatives were floored by the allegations against a man they knew as a good father to his 7-year-old daughter and newborn son. "You don't raise your children to be terrorists," said Aahkiyaah Cummings, his aunt. "I don't know that guy that was arrested." Just four years ago, Williams, now 28, told a parole board that prison was a wake-up call after his conviction on drug and weapons charges drugs he said he sold because he was making only $150 a week in his job. Onta Williams, 32, and Cromitie have also served prison sentences for drug convictions Cromitie said in court he had used marijuana as recently as Wednesday. He said he was 55, though law enforcement records give his age as 44.

Payen, 27, did time for attempted assault in 2002, he and others fired a BB gun out an SUV window, hitting two people in the head. He snatched purses from two women later the same day, said state Division of Parole spokeswoman Heather Groll. Payen appears to be a Haitian citizen, while the other three are Americans. The Williamses are not related.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he believed the defendants knew each other from their time behind bars. Relatives said Payen, David Williams and Onta (AWN'-tay) Williams were introduced to Islam in prison a trend in prisons around the country in recent years. "The Onta I know wouldn't do something like this, but the new Onta, yeah," said Richard Williams, an uncle. "He wasn't raised this way. All this happened when he became a Muslim in prison." He said his nephew, who loaded tractor-trailers at a warehouse, had been shaken by his mother's death in 2006 and a separation from his wife. She has custody of his three children.

Payen was apparently staying in a rundown house that neighbors say was known as a home for parolees. Penniless and jobless, he had been fighting deportation and seeking custody of his 3-year-old son, said Hamin Rashada, an assistant imam at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque, where authorities say the informant first met Cromitie in June 2008.

Cromitie was burning with anger about the U.S. war in Afghanistan, where his parents had lived before he was born, according to the criminal complaint. He told the informant he was interested in jihad and "doing something to America" and was crestfallen that "the best target (the World Trade Center) was hit already," the complaint said. In the same conversation, Cromitie said: "I hate those mother-------, those f------ Jewish b------ .... I would like to get (destroy) a synagogue," according to the complaint. In one conversation, Cromitie said he longed to shoot Jews in the head as they walked on the street near a synagogue, the informant told authorities. In another conversation with the informant, Onta Williams said the U.S. military was killing Muslims, "so if we kill them here with IEDs and Stingers, it is equal," according to court papers.

A woman who answered the phone at a Bronx listing for several of Cromitie's relatives said she didn't want to speak about him and hung up. No one answered the door at his Newburgh address, but neighbor Luis Pena said Cromitie was "a real nice guy."

Cromitie told the informant last July that he wanted to join Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistani terrorist group with which the informant claimed to be involved, the complaint said. Authorities say Jaish set up training camps in Afghanistan under the Taliban, and several senior operatives were close to Osama bin Laden. By December, Cromitie was asking the informant to supply explosives and surface-to-air missiles. The suspects obtained the weapons not knowing they were disabled earlier this month, according to the complaint.

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FBI, NYPD Arrest 4 in Alleged Plot to Bomb NY Synagogues

2009-05-21

Four New York City men were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up New York City synagogues and other city locations, WNBC's Jonathan Dienst was first to learn. Raids by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force in the Bronx captured the suspected ringleader and three followers in what law enforcement sources are calling a homegrown terrorist plot.

Investigators stress the suspects' meetings had been infiltrated early on and there was "no chance" the alleged plot could succeed. Some officials have called them an "unsophisticated" group.

Leave them alone and they could learn to do better ...

Investigators said several of the suspects are Muslims who allegedly talked about destroying two Jewish temples, including at least one in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Prosecutors also said the men discussed trying to shoot down military planes at Stewart Airport using stinger missiles.

The men ordered and accepted delivery of materials they believed were bomb-making ingredients, authorities said. But investigators said they made sure the materials the suspects received were inert. Officials tell WNBC they moved in now so the alleged plot could not progress any further.

The four suspects were identified as James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. The four men are in custody and are expected to be arraigned Thursday in White Plains federal court on terrorism-related counts.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered his thanks to the NYPD and FBI. "This latest attempt to attack our freedoms shows that the homeland security threats against New York City are sadly all too real and underscores why we must remain vigilant in our efforts to prevent terrorism," Bloomberg said.

The motives behind the alleged plot are not yet known, but authorities said that Cromitie said his parents live in Afghanistan and he was apparently upset over the U.S. military presence there and in Pakistan.

Since the 9/11 attacks, authorities have arrested suspects in a number of alleged plots against area targets including the Fort Dix New Jersey military base, John F. Kennedy Airport, the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge. Last December, a New Jersey jury convicted five foreign-born men, living and working in the area for years, of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers at Ft. Dix. Three were brothers from Yugoslavia; the others were born in Jordan and Turkey. The FBI arrested them after 15 months of surveillance after they tried to buy AK-47s and M-16s. The men had claimed they were set up by an unscrupulous informant.

In June 2007, four alleged Muslim extremists -- a 63-year-old former JFK airport cargo employee living in Brooklyn and three others from Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago -- were charged with plotting to blow up fuel lines and gas tanks at the busy Queens airport. All four have pleaded not guilty.

Two men were convicted of plotting to bomb the Herald Square station including a Pakistani immigrant Shahawar Matin Siraj. He is serving 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to blow up the subway station on the eve of the 2004 Republican National Convention in nearby Madison Square Garden.

Al Qaeda operative Iman Faris of Columbus, Ohio, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Kashmir, is serving 20 years in federal prison for planning to destroy American targets including the Brooklyn Bridge, which he cased in 2002 and 2003.

Others have been charged with material support for terrorism. Two American born Muslim converts, Bronx jazz musician and martial arts expert Tarik Shah and emergency room doctor Rafiq Sabir, who had worked in New York and Florida, were convicted in 2007 of conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaeda.

Queens resident Mohammed Junaid Babar, who immigrated to the U.S., pleaded guilty in 2004 to supporting Al Qaeda and has since testified against terror suspects who plotted attacks in London.

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