Entrapment

Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion"

2014-07-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Human Rights Watch released a comprehensive 214-page report documenting that many high-profile FBI terrorism prosecutions were “an illusion” based on aggressive sting operations that entrapped vulnerable individuals who posed no genuine threat. The report analyzed decades of terrorism …

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Newburgh Four Arrested in FBI Entrapment Sting - "Buffoonery" Made Into Terrorism

2009-05-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Four men from Newburgh, New York—James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen—were arrested in an FBI sting operation in which a paid government informant conceived the plot, provided all the means, and coerced economically desperate men into participating. A federal judge …

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