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A look at the fireworks company that sold products to two suspected terrorists this month
Phantom Fireworks sold items linked to two separate attacks, including $2,250 in fireworks before a synagogue attack, highlighting risks tied to varied state laws and border store locations.
By Eric Levenson, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after a man attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, earlier this month, William Weimer received a call from employees at a Phantom Fireworks store in nearby Livonia. Agents at the store told Weimer, Phantom’s vice president and general counsel for over three decades, they had a subpoena for information on the suspect in the attack. Phantom then searched its “very sophisticated” intern…