courtesy: Business Standard
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A Florida man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
The man identified as Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, of Fernandina Beach, faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison after he admitted of transmitting an interstate threat to the justice, who is not named, as per the Department of Justice statement.
The accused appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Monte Richardson on Friday, as per the U.S. court filings in Jacksonville, obtained by The Messenger.
Prosecutors said Sidhwaney made a call from Florida to the U.S. Supreme Court Justice on July 31 and left an expletive-laden threatening voicemail.
The DOJ said that over the voicemail, the accused “identified himself by name and repeatedly threatened to kill a specific Supreme Court justice.”
He was arrested two weeks after the phone call was made and will be sentenced at a later date.