Last ‘Newburgh Four’ Prisoner Files Motion for Release, Cites Government Entrapment in Post-9/11 Plot

A man portrayed by officials as the ringleader of a terrorist group known as the “Newburgh Four” has filed a motion for his release, citing evidence he had been

Police stand guard outside of Riverdale Temple following the apparent foiling of a terrorist plot in the Bronx borough of New York City on May 21, 2009. Four suspects were arrested on charges of plotting to detonate explosives near a synagogue and Jewish center in the Bronx borough of New York City and to shoot down military planes located at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York, after a year-long police and FBI sting supplied the suspects with inactive explosives and missile. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A third shift worker at Walmart who was portrayed by officials as the ringleader of a terrorist group known as the “Newburgh Four” has filed a motion for his release, citing evidence that he had been “framed” by the U.S. government.

The attorney for defendant James Cromitie, Kerry Lawrence, alleged that the entire plot had been manufactured by law enforcement in the motion filed on Sunday in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York.