Guyanese conspirator-turned-witness gets 4 years over JFK bomb plot

Guyanese Donald Nero, who admitted to participating in the early stages of a plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, yesterday received a four-year prison sentence, after providing what a judge described as “extraordinary” testimony during the trial of his former co-conspirators.

Nero, 51, pleaded guilty in 2008 to helping fellow Guyanese Russell Defreitas, Abdul Kadir, and Abdel Nur devise a plan to explode fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline under the airport in an attack