S.F. man pleads guilty to threatening Pelosi

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-16) 15:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco man tearfully pleaded guilty Thursday to making a telephone threat to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her support of federal health care legislation and agreed to spend a year and nine months in prison.

In pleading to a single felony charge of impeding or retaliating against a member of Congress, Gregory Lee Giusti, 49, admitted making more than 30 phone calls to Pelosi's homes in Washington, D.C., and St. Helena between Feb. 6 and March 25.

In one March 25 call, his plea agreement said, he told the San Francisco Democrat that if she voted for the legislation to provide government-subsidized health coverage to the uninsured, she "would not have a home to come home to."

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