2009 Bronx terrorism plot: Difference between revisions

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Laguerre Payen is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the [[United States Penitentiary, Allenwood]], a high-security facility in Pennsylvania, and is scheduled for release in October 24, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=85165-054&x=109&y=20|title=Inmate Locator|publisher=}}</ref>

In July 2023, McMahon ordered the [[compassionate release]] of Onta Williams, David Williams and Payen, ruling that the FBI had employedunscrupulously unscrupulous methods to manipulate them into committing illegal acts, notably by usingused Hussain, whom McMahon described as "unsavory", to pressuremanipulate Cromitie into pressuring them to commit illegal acts. McMahon characterized the three men as "hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals" and "small time [[Confidence trick|grifter]]s" who only participated because Cromitie said he would pay them using money promised to him by Hussain.<ref name=2023release>{{cite news |last=McKinley |first=Jesse |date=July 27, 2023 |title=Judge Orders Release of Three of 'Newburgh Four,' Criticizing F.B.I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/nyregion/newburgh-four-terrorism-fbi.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|___location=New York, NY}}</ref>

==Reactions and aftermath==