Sentencing delayed until Sept. for 5 convicted in Miami terrorism case

Sentencing delayed in Miami terror case

MIAMI — Sentencing has been put off until September for five Miami men convicted of plotting terror attacks against Chicago’s Sears Tower and several FBI offices.

The five had been scheduled for sentencing July 27. But that date was delayed until Sept. 8 in an order dated Thursday from U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard.

The judge gave no reason but defense attorneys had asked for additional time to prepare various filings.

The five were convicted in May in their third trial of conspiring to stage the attacks. Two earlier trials ended in mistrials. Two of the original “Liberty City Seven” defendants were acquitted.

Prosecutors said the men planned attacks with an FBI informant posing as a terrorist. The men insisted they intended no violence.