Posted on 12/28/2022 11:09:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
One of the ringleaders in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to more than 19 years behind bars Wednesday — a day after an accomplice was slapped with a 16-year prison term, federal prosecutors said.
Barry Croft Jr., 47, was handed the 19½-year sentence by Michigan federal Judge Robert Jonker four months after his conviction for conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor from her Elk Rapids vacation cottage in 2020.
Croft, a trucker from Delaware, was the fourth and final defendant in the plot to learn his fate.
The judge described him as “the idea guy” behind the scheme, which was ultimately foiled by an FBI informant in the group.
Prosecutors had sought life sentences for Croft and co-defendant Adam Fox, who were both convicted in August of conspiracy charges.
Croft also was found guilty of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and possession of a makeshift hand grenade for planning to blow up a bridge to help the plotters escape after they captured the governor.
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Our country is lost and the justice system is hopelessly corrupt.
The New York Post fabulist is entirely detached from reality.
It’s interesting that the Post is reporting the “FBI Informant” like he just so happened to be there?
How many years does the ideas guy at the FBI get?
The judge described him as “the idea guy”...
Reason for a mis-trial.
“How many years does the ideas guy at the FBI get?”
Steven M. D’Antuono; he was promoted to the Head of the FBI field office in DC, and resigned that cushy spot recently. He’s spent the last two years persecuting January 6 protestors.
He probably hopes to avoid providing the Republican House oversight with any testimony on the matter, if he can help it.
It must be a lost life, to value slaps on the back at the FBI, more than it distresses you to set your fellow man up for years of false imprisonment.
May the chains of your guilty conscience weigh heavy on you Steven M. D’Antuono.
KPMG hired the Fed guy
KPMG audits the fib
Hey judge, the FBI were the “idea guys”.
The fib supplied the equipment.
I wonder how much time the “undercover” FBI agents will get . . .
What a travesty of justice.
Yeah but kidnapping has always been a crime even in the glory days of the 50’s many wish we could return to.
How in the heck did the FBI know about these horrible Kidnappers and where they were located? Who reported them and why?
He should have done something that doesn’t have consequences like attempt to assassinate a conservative supreme court justice or something
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