“The Newburgh Sting”: HBO Documentary Explores Issue of FBI Entrapment | The Chicago Monitor

About Editorial Team Columnists Media Monitoring System Contact .primary menu #search .logo .header-right #header Chicago United States Domestic News Foreign Policy International Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East Arts & Culture Religion Human Rights Civil Rights Media Activism .secondary menu July 28, 2014 Arts & Culture , Civil Rights , Domestic News , Editorials , Government , Media Activism , top story , United States No comments Tweet By Sarah Husain. Five years ago, four men in the poverty-stricken town of Newburgh, New York were sentenced to 25 years in prison for an attempted bomb plot. Prosecutors painted the suspects as homegrown Muslim terrorists, with plenty of evidence that the “Newburgh Four” planned to destroy a Bronx synagogue. What the jury did not hear was that these men were not the masterminds behind the plot, th...

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