The Justice Department issued the following press release.
A Ridgeland man pleaded guilty to making threats in interstate commerce, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in July 2021, Robert Wiser Bates, 39, placed phone calls to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and left voicemails for CDC Director Rochelle Walensky that were threatening in nature. During an interview with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bates admitted to making the threatening phone calls, and stated that he would kill Dr. Anthony Fauci as well.
Bates is scheduled to be sentenced on March 7, 2023. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A federal district judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Purdie is prosecuting the case.
13 comments:
Hopefully sentencing will remove this thug’s rights to guns and voting.
Wonder what his social media connections are. He's probably thinking he'll be hailed a hero.
Now do all the people on Twitter that threatened my life because I didn't wear a mask or get the shot.
Probably just got drunk and was mouthing off, more a danger to himself than any government bureaucrats totin’ brief cases filled with organic peanut butter sammiches. And who’s going to believe testimony from the FBI? Certainly not I.
He could have avoided all this drama if he had just injected Ivermectin and drank bleach.
There probably legitimate concerns about some CDC policies, but the far right Trumpers are nuts.Fortunately,like this man,they aren’t very intelligent.
I wonder if he lost relative or friend to blood clots after receiving the vaccine and was pissed about it?
He'll probably get more time and fines than the David Lane & his son, who actually did do something to cause harm. Or the Colemans, or any of the other myriad of financial hustlers.
But, Fauci should be asked some hard questions under oath.
I wish Lumumba would move on. He's done nothing for this city. The one good thing we have is the CPD and he wants to neuter it like he's done with JPD.
Sorry, I commented on the wrong thread....
Prototype right wing nut.
He sounds like a very stable genius.
7:38 You wrote: "There [sic] probably legitimate concerns about some CDC policies......." Is it possible to make a bigger understatement than what you just wrote?
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