Three Michigan Men Sentenced to Prison Terms for Aiding Plot Against Whitmer

[Scott]

 

Three men convicted of aiding a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan in 2020 were sentenced on Thursday to lengthy sentences that could put them in prison for at least seven years.

The three men, Paul Bellar, 24, Joseph Morrison, 28, and Pete Musico, 45, were convicted in October of aiding a plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer, a Democrat, as part of a right-wing backlash over her role in the state’s Covid restrictions. The men, all Michigan residents, were found guilty of providing material support for terrorist acts and illegal gang membership, as well as felony firearms charges.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/us/whitmer-kidnap-sentence-michigan.html

[ozimoron]

There will be somebody along in a minute to say these guys were just LARPing.

 

The judge is obviously motivated to create a deterrent to anyone else contemplating this kind of behaviour.

[ozimoron]

'Ringleader' Adam Fox avoids life sentence in Whitmer kidnapping plot, ordered to serve 16 years

 

https://www.rawstory.com/adam-fox-avoids-life-sentence-in-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-ordered-to-serve-16-years/

[Tug]

A bit light on the time imo but definitely a deterrent good!

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, Tug said:

A bit light on the time imo but definitely a deterrent good!

I think the judge felt sorry for him. He looks like he was dropped on his head when he was a baby.

[anyone]

Michigani

[bendejo]

Waiting for one (or more) of these convicted MAGA felons to file a lawsuit against the MAGA leadership (ahem!) for directing them to do these things while assuring them that lawyers will be provided if there are consequences.  Recall DT at his 2016 rallies telling his fans that if someone is disruptive to give them a beat-down and he'll cover the lawyer fees. 

While I don't think there was a literal directive to kill her the animosity engendered by T World is definitely a factor.  Gonna take a crafty lawyer to connect the culpability dots.

One of the 1/6 seditionists claimed he was there at the direction of the then-POTUS, this might  be the basis for the first action.

 

 

[ozimoron]

Judge orders another long prison term in Gov. Whitmer plot

 

A Delaware trucker described as a co-leader of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison Wednesday, a day after an accomplice received 16 years behind bars.

 

https://apnews.com/article/gretchen-whitmer-politics-michigan-legal-proceedings-067bdf0f233865a9070918f98b6d4c3a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01

[Credo]

The Courts are really not messing around when sentencing these guys.  

 

[vangrop]

Can the moderator explain what this have to do with Thailand?

[Salerno]

16 minutes ago, vangrop said:

Can the moderator explain what this have to do with Thailand?

[Tug]

Good!now let’s get old Donnie and company indicted tried convicted then sentenced (hopefully) for a very very long time!

[bendejo]

58 minutes ago, vangrop said:

Can the moderator explain what this have to do with Thailand?

Embarrassed?

 

[bendejo]

2 hours ago, Credo said:

The Courts are really not messing around when sentencing these guys.  

 

Generally US law is tough on kidnapping, I guess it goes back to the media frenzy around the Lindbergh case (which was before my time).  I see Whitmer as potential presidential material.

The thing about these MAGA nuts is they blame the LE officials personally for locking them up, not the laws themselves, just like their leaders.  Even after all this 45 stuff with criminal charges is settled (when will that be, 2035?), there could be a long procession of people who received death threats to themselves and theirs due to his instigations filing civil suits against him. 

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by bendejo