MIAMI -- After three trials, a jury finally came to a verdict Tuesday in the trial of six men accused of plotting to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices.

Naudimar Herrera, 25, was the only one of the so-called Liberty City Six to be acquitted on all charges of plotting terrorism.

Alleged ringleader Narseal Batiste, 35, was the only defendant convicted on all four conspiracy counts, and he faces up to 70 years in prison.

Batiste's right-hand man, 29-year-old Patrick Abraham, faces 50 years in prison after his conviction on three counts. Burson Augustin, 24, Rotschild Augustine, 25, and 33-year-old Stanley Grant Phanor, all of whom were convicted on two counts, face up to a possible 30 years.

After 22 months in federal custody, Herrera left the court Tuesday a free man.

"The whole thing is wrong. All the verdicts are wrong. Everyone should have been acquitted," Herrera said.

The men were accused of secretly meeting in a Liberty City warehouse in 2006 and plotting with an FBI informant posing as an al-Qaida operative to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago as well as FBI offices around the country.

Herrera insisted it was all just talk.

"What happened to freedom of speech? If that is the case, then a whole lot of people would be messed up," Herrera said.

"You had no intention of doing any of the things you talked about?" Local 10's Todd Tongen asked.

"It was all a bunch of hogwash from the beginning," Herrera said.

"You were not serious about any of it?" Tongen said.

"No one was serious about any of it," Herrera said.

This was the third trial for the group, after the first two ended in a mistrial.

An alleged seventh member of the group, Luglenson Lemorin, was acquitted during the first trial.

Herrera had words of encouragement for the five who were found guilty.

"I love you all. You all stay healthy, because we're going to come back and do this again. I am still with you all," Herrera said.

U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard set sentencing for July 26 for the five convicted men, most of whom are Haitian or have Haitian ancestry. They lived in Miami's downtrodden inner-city neighborhood known as Liberty City.