FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K, who provided terror suspects with fake bombs
FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K, who provided terror suspects with fake bombs
BY Robert Gearty
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
August 25, 2010
The jury in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case was told Wednesday that the informant who provided the four suspects with phony bombs and missiles was paid $97,000 by the FBI.
The FBI gave Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain $44,000 for expenses and $53,000 for "his services" over a three-year period, agent Robert Fuller said.
Fuller, the first prosecution witness in the trial that started Tuesday, showed the jury one of the unexploded bombs the would-be terrorists planned to use to blow up one of two Riverdale synagogues.
Defense lawyers contend that without the informant - who they say entrapped the suspects - their bumbling clients would never have tried to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale and shoot down missiles.
James Cromitie, 44, and co-defendants David Williams, 29, Onta Williams, 34, and Laguerre Payen, 28, were caught in May 2009.
Hussain met them at an upstate mosque, where he was sent by the feds. The trial continues today in Manhattan Federal Court. The four suspects face life in prison if convicted.
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Entrapment.
Just like the guy here in Dallas, these guys were led down the path and provided with all the materials for their "crime". Without the informants and without the FBI providing the materials, I don't believe there would have been a crime. Keep that fear going. The strategy of tension is alive and well.
$ 97 K
Oh there's no conflict of interest here.
What's 97,000 dollars.
By the way, FBI got a good deal on that one. Guy should have required Yuan.
How convenient
- he's from Pakistan! That, together with the Wikileaks release. Of course he couldn't be from Iraq - what would be the point? We already occupy that country and have stolen all of their natural resources.