Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Four men imprisoned for plotting to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale, N.Y. were entrapped by a paid FBI informant posing as an Islamic extremist, their attorneys told an appeals court Monday, the New York Daily News reports.
The attorneys of the men – James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payan – argue the convictions and 25-year sentences should be overturned because the FBI preyed on vulnerable, poverty-stricken Muslims who otherwise would not have committed a crime, the Daily News wrote.
Prosecutor Adam Hickey argued the defendants could have walked away without intending to blow up two synagogues in 2009.
No decision has been made yet by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
