Four guilty of plotting attacks on New York synagogues

Tue Oct 19, 2010

 BBC News

Four men have been convicted in New York of plotting to blow up synagogues and shoot down military aircraft after being caught in a 2009 FBI sting.

The men were found guilty after the jury heard an informant's testimony and recordings of them discussing the plot.

James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were caught after planting what they thought were real bombs at synagogues in the Bronx.

Federal prosecutors said the men posed no danger during the sting operation.

Defence lawyers had described the case as a fiction produced by the FBI.

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