Posted on 09/04/2024 2:34:48 AM PDT by RandFan
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 13 months in prison on charges connected to a threat to kill a congressional staff member and more than 12,000 phone calls to dozens of congressional offices, both in Washington and home districts across the country.
The defendant, Ade Salim Lilly, pleaded guilty in May to two federal counts — interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure, and repeated telephone calls — and plea documents said Lilly at times used vulgar and harassing language.
In one incident, Lilly reportedly told a congressional staffer: “I will kill you, I am going to run you over, I will kill you with a bomb or grenade.” An indictment also accused Lilly of targeting a congressional office with phone calls more than 500 times over the course of about two days in February 2023.
During the sentencing hearing, Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia pointed to an elevated threat landscape facing members of Congress in recent years.
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Yea, just stay under 250 calls per day. Politicians don’t believe anything that comes from their own mouths, especially promises, but they believe the citizens are crazy and honest.
Salim.
13 months, an absolute pittance compared to the Jan.6th stolen election protestors who didn’t harm anyone and are still rotting in the DC gulag the past few years without being charged with a crime. Let me guess: Mr. Lilly is non-white, must be because I can’t find his photo anywhere.
He really needed a life
“I get to make a phone call !!!!” as he was being led away in cuffs.
I’m almost 70 and doubt I’ve made 12,000 calls in my lifetime.
As for calls to Congress I’ve never made one. Wrote many letters ... actual mail type letters an years ago it was the actual Congressman that answered. Now they never see the letters, emails or take calls, just the staff does and you get a canned response and a stamped signature.
He should have been a telephone solicitor... he missed his calling.
Heh- I see what you did there! 😁
I stopped with sending letters to those morons on the Hill back in the 90s. It’s like pissin’ in the wind. I wrote my Senator John McCain complaining about Slick Willie pardoning those Puerto Rican gang-banging cop killers. About 3 months later, McCain’s Office McClowns sent me back a form letter thanking me for my “interest” in Puerto Rican statehood. Took me a long time to figure out what the hell my Senator was talking about. Then I remember the letter I had sent to him. True story.
At least the Congress knows there is a VERY high level of disapproval out here in the general public for them and the way they operate. Doesn’t seem to help them change their behavior, but at least they know.
Lol!
The author took great pains to hide this:
“A defense attorney for Lilly identified the person who received the death threat as a staffer for Res. Cmmsr. Jenniffer González-Colón, R-P.R.”
As well as the political inclination of the perp.
Just tell them your an illegal and you’ll be fine no problem they may even thank you after cussing them out.
He needs a good psychoanalyst and loss of all phone privileges for 10 years. Any real emergencies, he can call his parole officer, and no one else!
Oh, and he needs to get a job.
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