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March 3, 2011

Newburgh 4 Prisoner: Money Motivated Involvement with Informant 
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One of four New York prisoners jailed in what critics have labeled a
government entrapment case is speaking out for the first time. Last
year, a federal jury found four men guilty of plotting to bomb a
synagogue and a Jewish community center in the Bronx. All four were from
Newburgh, one of the poorest cities in New York. Defense attorneys
argued the men were entrapped by government agents and not predisposed
to commit a terrorist crime. According to The Village Voice, one of the
prisoners, David Williams, now says he only went along with the
government informant who organized the bomb plot, Shahed Hussain,
because he saw an opportunity to cheat Hussain out of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. In a letter to a friend, Williams writes: "We all
said lots of things only to either impress [Hussain] or make him think
he found a band of real killers. We never meant one word of what we
said."



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