Woman Pleads Guilty for Threat Left on Voice-Mail of Judge Tanya Chutkan, Who Was Presiding Over Trump’s Election Interference Trial
[UPDATE 12/26/2024, 7:36 pm: I erroneously titled this post “woman sentenced for …” (likely because I had been reviewing some other posts about sentencing in other cases), but at this point she has just pleaded guilty; my apologies—I’ve just corrected this.]
From a Justice Department press release distributed Nov. 13, 2024 but just posted on Westlaw:
A 44-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to transmission in interstate commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another …. Abigail J. Shry admitted that on Aug. 5, 2023, she placed a call to the chambers of a federal judge and made derogatory statements and threats to anyone that went after then former President Donald Trump. She also made a direct threat to a then sitting congresswoman, all democrats in Washington D.C. and all people in the LGBTQ community.
At the hearing, Shry claimed that at the time she made th
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