Last ‘Newburgh Four’ Prisoner Released, Judge Says FBI ‘Invented Conspiracy’ in Post-9/11 Plot

A man portrayed by officials as the ringleader of a terrorist group known as the “Newburgh Four” has been released from prison after presenting evidence that he had been “framed” by the U.S. government. On Friday U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon granted James Cromitie, 58, compassionate release from prison nearly seven months after she ordered the release of his three co-defendants. In her ruling, the judge wrote that Mr. Cromitie and his co-defendants, “would not have, and could not have, devised on their own a crime involving missiles that would have warranted the 25-year sentence the court was forced to impose.”...