Last ‘Newburgh Four’ Prisoner to File for Release

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

The fourth member of the “Newburgh Four,” James Cromitie, a third shift worker at Walmart who was portrayed by officials as the ringleader of the group, is optimistic that his release will come soon, according to his attorney Kerry Lawrence.

“I’ll be filing within the next 30 days for his release,” Mr. Lawrence told the Epoch Times. “I’m confident he would be entitled to the same relief for the same reasons articulated by Judge McMahon for the other defendants.”