Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is raising questions about why someone who threatened his family isn’t being prosecuted at the federal level.
The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Indiana declined to prosecute a man who left threatening voicemails to Banks’s family in April 2023. While Aaron Thompson was sentenced to two years of probation by the local district attorney in Indiana, threats against members of Congress are usually handled by the U.S. attorney general’s office, as it is a violation of federal law.
“When Capitol Police referred the criminal case against Aaron Thompson to the U.S. Attorney for Northern District of Indiana, they declined to prosecute…
