Via press release from the Justice Department:
A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr., age 56, for the federal charges of threats against a federal official and interstate communication containing a threat to harm, specifically for sending emails threatening harm to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, the current Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, from December 28, 2020 to July 21, 2021, Connally used an email account from a provider of secure, encrypted email services based in Switzerland, to send a series of emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the current Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”) and the Chief Medical Advisor to President of the United States, threatening to harm and/or kill him and members of his family.
One of the emails threatened that Dr. Fauci and his family would be “dragged into the street, beaten to death, and set on fire.” On April 24, 2021 alone, seven threatening emails were sent from the encrypted account between 10:05 p.m. and 10:12 p.m. As detailed in the affidavit, also on April 24, 2021, just 30 minutes before the seven emails were sent to Dr. Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the NIH, received a total of four threatening emails from the same encrypted email address associated with Connally.
ALERT: Man charged in Maryland with sending threatening emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Threatening to beat, kill and lynchMan criticizes vaccines too, per feds
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— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 27, 2021
A man apparently infuriated over the government’s advice to get vaccinated against COVID-19 sent numerous violent emails to Anthony Fauci, threatening to—among other things—break every bone in his “disgusting elf skull” and sew his scalp onto a rat https://t.co/VOwHW2Ed1U
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 27, 2021