One of the men who played a key role in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison Wednesday, the longest sentence yet for a federal defendant in one of the most watched domestic terrorism cases in the country.
Defendant Barry Croft Jr. was likened to Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. A prosecutor also referred to Croft as the American version of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the man who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
