Eric Feight Gets 8 Years in ‘Death Ray’ Plot Against Muslims Union
Feight downplayed providing Glendon Scott Crawford, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, with a remote control device to set off a mobile, radiation-emitting death ray that Crawford hoped to use on targets that included mosques in Albany and Schenectady, an Islamic school in Colonie, the Executive Mansion in Albany and the White House.
Feight knew Crawford from General Electric in Schenectady, where Crawford worked as a mechanic and Feight was a subcontractor.
Crawford convinced Feight — whom he nicknamed “software guy” and “Yoda” — to join his scheme, unaware that two major players were undercover FBI agents. Crawford and Feight were both arrested June 18, 2013.
In August, Crawford was convicted at trial of attempting to produce or use a radiological dispersal device, a law Congress passed in 2004 to crack down on the terror threat of a “dirty bomb.” He was the first person in America convicted under the law and faces life in prison at his sentencing by Sharpe on March 16. If Feight’s remote control worked for Crawford, “Who knows who would have been hurt by this machine?” Sharpe asked.
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