A government informer spent several months secretly recording conversations with the men who were plotting to explode bombs outside synagogues in the Bronx and firing Stinger missiles at military transport planes at Stewart International Airport. The investigation had relied on an informer who had posed as a Pakistani terrorist and had spent months recording conversations with the men and defense lawyers argued that their clients had been psychologically coerced into joining the plot through offers of money and other rewards.VideoVideo: 2009 Interviews with family member's and neighbors. The suspects: are 55-year-old James Cromitie; 28-year-old David Williams; 32-year-old Onta Williams; and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh. Each were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles. Prosecutors painted Cromitie as the ring leader of the group, eager to take credit for the terrorist plot. He…
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