Update To Story We First Reported In January. Two Years In Prison For Michael Shapiro.
BY: STAFF REPORT | BocaNewsNow.com
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Palm Beach County man will spend two years in federal prison for threatening a Democratic Congressman believed to be Eric Swalwell of California. We first reported on the accusations in January. Here is that report. The Department of Justice provided this update to BocaNewsNow.com:
U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz sentenced Michael Shapiro, 73, to 24 months in prison during a hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for leaving three voicemail messages threatening to kill a member of Congress and the Congressperson’s children.
According to court records, on Dec. 19, 2023, Shapiro called and left five voicemail messages at a U.S. Congressional Office in Washington, D.C. from his residence in Greenacres, Fla. In three of the messages, Shapiro threatened to kill the Congressperson and the Congressperson’s children. Specifically, Shapiro stated, “I’m gonna come after you and kill you [expletive].” In another call, Shapiro stated, “I’m gonna come and kill your children you mother-[expletive]. I’m gonna kill your children.”
Shapiro was arrested at his home on Jan. 3. On May 17, Shapiro pled guilty to the indictment charging him with transmitting threatening communications.
Markenzy Lapointe, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and J. Thomas Manger, Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), announced the sentence. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Dispoto prosecuted the case.
Send him to jail?
They should throw him a ticker tape parade
Two years is not enuf!! Minimum mandatory should be 7 and publicised.
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