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Each of the men apologized before the sentencing. Cromitie said, "I've never been a terrorist and I'll never be a terrorist. I'm very sorry I let myself get caught up in a sting like this" and added that he did not truly believe the anti-Semitic statements heard on the audiotapes at trial.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/06/29/2011-06-29_judge_gives_men_convicted_in_bronx_synagogue_bomb_plot_25_years_in_prison_but_la.html|title=Judge slams gov't in bomb plot case|website=[[New York Daily News]]|access-date=June 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703082740/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/06/29/2011-06-29_judge_gives_men_convicted_in_bronx_synagogue_bomb_plot_25_years_in_prison_but_la.html|archive-date=July 3, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
On September 7, 2011, McMahon also sentenced Laguerre Payen to 25 years prison, but repeated her criticism of the government's handling of the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/judge-slams-sting-in-bronx-synagogue-case-1.3152375|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418211849/https://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/judge-slams-sting-in-bronx-synagogue-case-1.3152375|archive-date=2019-04-18|url-status=dead|title=Judge slams sting in Bronx synagogue case|publisher=}}</ref>
In 2013, a federal appeals court, by a vote of two to one, upheld convictions that the three defendants were guilty as charged. Judge Newman, in rejecting the misconduct claims, stated that, "As with all sting operations, government creation of the opportunity to commit an offense, even to the point of supplying defendants with materials essential to commit crimes, does not exceed due process limits....[FBI] agents would have been derelict in their duties if they did not test how far Cromitie would go to carry out his desires. When a government agent encounters a Muslim who volunteers that he wants to 'do something to America' or die like a martyr, the agent is entitled to probe the attitudes of that person to learn whether his religious views have impelled him toward the violent brand of radical Islam that poses a dire threat to the United States."<ref name="auto"/>
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