A Texas woman has been charged threatens death against the judge presiding over the trial of former President Donald Trump classified documents case was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
Tiffany Shea Gish of Houston served 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department said. news release.
“The prosecution of Tiffany Gish for making assassination threats against a federal judge sends a powerful message that we have zero tolerance for those who often hide behind a remote keyboard or phone line to threaten their safety and undermine our democratic institutions. people who help the development of the same institutions”, – in the statement of US prosecutor Alamdar S. Hamdani.
A public defender listed for Gish did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night.
Gish admitted his guilt one count of using an interstate communication to threaten to abduct or injure a person in November after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors, according to court documents.
That guilty plea came more than a year after Gish imprisonment Eileen Cannon, a Trump appointee overseeing the case over the former president’s handling of classified materials after leaving office in connection with the threatening voicemails in Houston, has been referred to U.S. Magistrate Judge Eileen Cannon.
According to court documents, Gish admitted to federal marshals that he left messages for Cannon, warning the judge that he was “marked for conspiracy” and that he planned to shoot him in front of his family.
Friday’s ruling comes as other judges have become targets in Trump cases.
A Texas woman was charged last year threatened US District Judge Tanya ChutkaOverseeing Trump’s interference in the federal election. Chutkan recently postponed The trial, which is scheduled to begin next month, has challenged rulings that Trump is not immune from prosecution.
The classified documents case, which Cannon oversaw, is scheduled to go to trial in May.
Trump is accused of willfully withholding national defense information related to classified documents discovered at his Mar-a-Lago estate more than a year after he left office and conspiring with two co-defendants to delete the property’s security video.
Trump and the co-defendants, chief aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance supervisor Carlos De Oliveira, have denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
On Thursday, special prosecutor Jack Smith’s team asked Cannon reconsider According to Smith’s team, the order to turn over the unredacted documents identifies more than two dozen witnesses and threatens their safety and testimony. Prosecutors noted in a separate lawsuit this week that social media threats a potential witness subject to federal investigation.