A New York man was sentenced Thursday to three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for sending threatening voicemails to the Washington, D.C. office of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, authorities said.
Joseph F. Morelli, age 51, of Endicott, entered a guilty plea in which he admitted to issuing the threats, a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York (NDNY) noted. “I’m gonna have to take your life into my own hands… I’m gonna hurt you. Physically, I’m gonna harm you,” went one of Morelli’s threats in part. Another voicemail message said in part, “I’m gonna have to show you, to your face, right up front, what violence truly is, and I don’t think you’re gonna like it.… I can pay someone 500 bucks to take a baseball bat and crack your skull. …You are going to get…
