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Ex-Home Depot worker convicted in $2M extortion plot
June 18--A New York man has been convicted of trying to extort $2 million from Atlanta-based Home Depot by threatening to detonate a pipe bomb at stores last year.
A federal jury convicted Daniel Sheehan, 50, of Deer Park, N.Y., on Monday after two hours of deliberation, according to several published reports. He is a former part-time handy man at a Home Depot on Long Island in Huntington.
Sheehan was charged with attempted extortion and the use of a destructive device. He faces up to 30...
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