Prison for S.F. man who threatened Pelosi

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(12-02) 16:28 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco man who admitted threatening to destroy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home if she supported federal health care legislation was sentenced Thursday to a year and nine months in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White accepted a sentencing agreement between prosecutors and Gregory Lee Giusti, who pleaded guilty in September to a felony charge of impeding or retaliating against a member of Congress. A lawyer for Pelosi said the speaker also approved the agreement.

Giusti, 49, admitting making more than 30 phone calls to Pelosi's homes in Washington and St. Helena in February and March.

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

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/02/BADN1GL5HU.DTL

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Also, Giusti has a past criminal record of "that includes a 1991 misdemeanor conviction for making harassing phone calls and a 2004 conviction for threatening to kill a conductor after being kicked off a train in San Mateo County."

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1. Thank God for jails. n/t