Man who made bomb threat against Arizona election official gets 3.5 years in prison
Source: CNN Politics
Published 1:21 PM EDT, Wed March 13, 2024
CNN — A man who sent a bomb threat in 2021 to Katie Hobbs, then-Arizona’s secretary of state and now Democratic governor, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
James Clark of Falmouth, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in August 2023 to one count of making a threatening interstate communication after being indicted the previous summer on three counts, including making a bomb threat, the Justice Department announced.
“Those using illegal threats of violence to intimidate election workers should know that the Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable under the law,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
According to the DOJ, Clark sent a message to the elections division of the Arizona secretary of state’s office saying “your attorney general” should resign or “the explosive device impacted in her personal space will be detonated,” via a web form. Clark addressed the message to Hobbs, according to court filings.
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awful "I Lean" Cannon is she departed from the Federal sentencing guidelines/prosecutors recommendation while sentencing a man for repeated death threats to Nancy Pelosi, AOC and Kim Foxx from Illinois who was a prosecutor at the time. All Dems. The guidelines were for 33 to 41 months and the prosecutors wanted the top amount. "I Lean" looked out on the situation and gave him 18 months in jail followed by 3 years of supervision and a $2000 fine. Gee I wonder if the political affiliations had been different how she would have ruled?