NEW: A Florida man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for making violent threats to Nancy Pelosi and AOC.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol on March 31, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Win McNamee via Getty Images
A Florida man was sentenced on Friday to 18 months in prison for making violent threats to Speaker Nancy Pelosi , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx.Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, pleaded guilty in January to threatening to cut Pelosi's head off "Jihadist style" and calling Ocasio-Cortez to tell her he would "rip her head off."In a March 2019 call, Hoeffer threatened to come a "long, long way" to rattle Pelosi's head with bullets.
Around that time, he called Foxx, who is Black, and used a racial slur to convey that bullets were going to "rattle her brain." In November 2020, he left a recording for Ocasio-Cortez telling her to sleep with one eye open and that she "should have been aborted." Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 3.5 years in prison, but Hoeffer's defense requested leniency, citing his recent diagnosis with an aggressive form of cancer,
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