May 1, 2003
Source: The Associated Press
On May 1, 2003 The Associated Press reported that "a dentist who admitted being an accomplice in a plot to bomb an Islamic center last year was sentenced to almost 3 1/2 years in prison Thursday... Michael Hardee, 50, pleaded guilty last fall to agreeing to drive friend Robert Goldstein to the Islamic Society of Pinellas County, where the podiatrist planned to plant homemade bombs and blow up buildings in retaliation for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks... Hardee was sentenced to 41 months in prison. Federal sentencing guidelines had called for more than five years, but prosecutors asked for leniency because Hardee helped build cases against Goldstein and his estranged wife, Kristi Goldstein."