i knew he was making money. i don t think anybody would sit there and say where is this money coming from because it just never was huge. reporter: a jury found lanham guilty of fraud, and he s now facing 20 years in prison. lanham is asking for four years saying his 17-year-old daughter can t rely on his ex-wife who he called emotionally unstable. in a letter to the court his attorney writes, laura is going through a highly ostentatious mid-life crisis and conducts herself largely as a teenager, attending nightclubs and dating men in their teens and 20s. i m not sleeping with these kids. these are my friends. so, you know if i, will i date eventually, yes. if he is younger, great. reporter: the cougar label is one laura lanham claimed in a posted on cougarlifediaries.com, a blog which chronicles the exploits of women over 40 who use dating sites to meet younger men. ross lanham won t learn his fate until next month. his ex-wife doesn t wish prison on him. but cougar or not, he
garfunkel s mrs. robinson has been linked to older women and younger men. who hasn t seen that movie? call those women cougars. now a guy in new york is using his former wife s cougarish ways for a reason for a reduced prison sentence. abc s linsey davis has the details. reporter: willard ross lanham convicted of bilking schools out of almost $2 million is asking for leniency because he fears for his daughter if left with his ex-wife laura, a self-described cougar. a cougar really is a woman going out and meeting younger guys and i tend to click with people younger. reporter: that s right call it the cougar defense. lanham once a hot shot consultant for the new york city department of education lived lavishly in his mansion with his wife, 15 years his junior. he named the street after her laura lane. it seemed normal.
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have tested the soil. water. septic tank. congestion. and according to the planning commission they have passed all of those tests. which is why many muslims believe there s another reason they are not wanted. we should not be holding the center at different stand arrested than other places of worship which brings concern of element of islamic phone yaichlt about fear ignorance. reporter: project opponent strongly disagree with that characterization. they were a minority in the room today, they have always been very vocal about their concern. i am concerned about the traffic. thinking it has to do with being a bigot or not wanting them there. it s not that. the fact is these people live in a flood zone. it s a rural area. some people use water concerns as cover for that hatred. reporter: in the end the planning commission voted unanimously to grant the use permit. opponent plan to appeal that decision and take it up before the board of supervisors next month. lisa, ab
concrete overpass killing one person and injuring dozens more after blowing a tire. rescuers used ladders to get trapped passengers out of the bus. discount carriers including mega bus are watched for safety breaches. this company claims to have the highest federal safety rating. while the eyes of the world are on olympic security in britain, a new terror threat has emerged in spain. three al qaeda suspects are under arrest and investigators say they had what they needed to pull off a brazen attack. abc s martha raddatz has that story. reporter: the three suspected al qaeda operatives had timers and enough explosives with them to blow up a bus. even more troubling, at least two of the men had been practicing flying light aircraft believed to be motorized paragliders like those seen here. those innocent looking pleasure craft that the suspects may have intended for far deadlier purposes since al qaeda has long been obsessed with arming aircraft. how much explosive substanc