Man Found Guilty Of 100+ Phone Threats To McCarthy

The Associated Press reports:

A Montana man was convicted Wednesday of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after becoming upset that the government had not shot down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over his home city.

Richard Rogers, 45, of Billings, delivered the threat to a McCarthy staffer during a series of more than 100 calls to the Republican speaker’s office in just 75 minutes on Feb. 3, 2023, prosecutors said.

The 12-person federal jury also found Rogers guilty on two counts of making harassing telephone calls: the ones to McCarthy’s office plus 150 calls he made to an FBI tip line in 2021 and 2022. Rogers routinely made vulgar and obscene comments in those calls.

Read the full article. Rogers faces up to six years in prison for threatening a member of Congress.

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