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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Las Vegas man gets 46 months for threatening U.S. senator
May 14 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to more than three years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a U.S. senator from Nevada and the family members of two other U.S. senators. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey sentenced John Anthony Miller on Tuesday to a 46-month prison term to be followed by three years of supervised release. "Threats against these U.S. senators and their families were vile, dehumanizing and shameful," Sue Bai, head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, said in a statement. "Today's sentence reflects the department's firm resolve to holding accountable those who seek to intimidate and harm our public officials. Such threats of violence have no place in our country." Miller had pleaded guilty to one count of threatening a federal official and two counts of influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member. According to court documents, Miller made several calls to an unidentified senator between Oct. 11-19, 2023, leaving the politician obscene and expletive-riddled threatening messages. In one of the messages, excerpts of which were reproduced in court documents, Miller told the senator that "we're gonna finish what Hitler started" and "we're gonna exterminate you." A message Miller left at the senator's office suggested that he believed the senator was Jewish, and his threats were in connection to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, which was instigated on Oct. 7 of that year when the militant group attacked the Middle Eastern country. Miller also appeared at a Las Vegas courthouse intending to speak with the senator, and when he was denied entry, he yelled profanities. At the time of the incident, a spokesperson for Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., confirmed in a statement that she was the target of the abuse. Federal prosecutors also said that on Oct. 24 and 25 of that year, he threatened to assault and murder an immediate family member of two other U.S. senators. It was not clear who the other two senators were. Miller was arrested on Oct. 26, 2023.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Las Vegas man who threatened senator sentenced to 3 years in prison
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A federal judge sentenced a Las Vegas man to nearly four years in prison for making violent threats against Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen and another lawmaker, according to the Department of Justice. John Anthony Miller, 43, was accused of leaving numerous voicemails and threatening to assault and murder Rosen in October 2023, prosecutors said. 'Gonna finish what Hitler started,' Las Vegas man accused of making threats to Sen. Jacky Rosen Miller pleaded guilty to one count of threatening a federal official and two counts of retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member, prosecutors said. 'The threats against these U.S. senators and their families were vile, dehumanizing, and shameful,' Sue J. Bai, head of the National Security Division, said in a statement. 'Today's sentence reflects the Department's firm resolve to hold accountable those who seek to intimidate and harm our public officials. Such threats of violence have no place in our country.' On Oct. 17, Miller left several voicemails, which included the following statements: 'All these [expletive] lies is in your [expletive] hands, you [expletive] [expletive], and I'm gonna [expletive] see you soon, you [expletive] sellout [expletive] [expletive] [expletive].' 'You just [expletive] woken up a mother[expletive] monster, you [expletive] piece of [expletive] inhuman, subhuman, you're vermin, [expletive], you are vermin, [expletive], and we're gonna finish what Hitler started, you [expletive] [expletive].' 'You done picked your side, [expletive], and you done chose evil. I don't give a [expletive] is you were born into it or not, [expletive], you are [expletive] evil, [expletive], and we're gonna exterminate you, [expletive].' Phone subscriber records showed the number used to make the threats was registered to John Miller, documents said. Miller also listed the number as his contact number in two prior 9-1-1 calls. Miller was arrested on Oct. 26, 2023. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
U.S. cracks down on Hamas-linked crypto network, seizes over $200K
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of close to $201,400 worth of cryptocurrency tied to a network that has been allegedly used for fundraising for Hamas and laundering funds connected to the Islamist group, representing a major disruption of a years-long terrorist financing effort. As per court documents, the funds were traced to wallets and accounts actively fundraising for the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (Hamas). The government said that the confiscated funds were part of a larger scheme that washed more than $1.5 million in digital currency since October 2024. U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., National Security Division head Sue J. Bai, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda of the Albuquerque Field Office announced the action. Investigators say supporters of Hamas were guided via encrypted group chats to give to at least 17 rotating cryptocurrency addresses. The addresses funneled money into one central wallet, where the assets were laundered using a series of exchanges, suspected financiers, and over-the-counter brokers. 'Hamas is responsible for the deaths of many U.S. and Israeli nationals, and we will use every legal tool at our disposal to stop their campaign of terror and murder,' said U.S. Attorney Martin. Special Agent Bujanda and the FBI emphasized that this was part of a strategic disruption, saying, 'This success demonstrates that financial warfare is a critical component in fighting terrorism.' The seized addresses totaled about $89,900, and 3 other crypto accounts totaled $111,500. These corresponded to Palestinians living in Turkey and other parts of the globe. Attorneys from the DOJ's National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. are prosecuting the case, which was investigated by the FBI's Albuquerque Field Office and its Counterterrorism and Cyber Divisions.
NBC News
18-03-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Government releases latest batch of JFK assassination documents
More than 60 years after President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, the federal government began releasing what could be the final trove of documents delving into the assassination that shocked the nation and spawned countless conspiracy theories. The Justice Department's National Security Division on Tuesday started unveiling the long-awaited files a day after President Donald Trump announced that 80,000 pages related to the fatal Nov. 22, 1963, shooting were about to be released. 'You got a lot of reading,' Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 'I don't believe we're going to redact anything.' Trump was cagey about what would be in those files, but historians contend that there are around 4,700 documents that haven't yet been released. "The origins of the 80,000 pages of material are unknown," Jefferson Morley, an expert on the JFK assassination and the CIA, wrote on his JFK Facts blog. DOJ lawyers worked all night to review hundreds of pages of classified documents before they were released, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News. It remains to be seen whether this document drop will finally put to rest the widespread public skepticism of the government's official explanation of who killed Kennedy — a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald who fired the fatal shots from the Texas Schoolbook Depository. 'People have so many doubts,' presidential historian Michael Beschloss said. 'There are so many theories that are conflicting. It's very hard for me to imagine that there will be one piece of evidence that will make everyone agree on what happened here. What most people do agree is that the killing of John Kennedy changed history, and mainly in a bad way.' When Trump was campaigning last year and trying to win the endorsement of JFK's nephew, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he renewed his promise to release the files. Hours after snagging RFK Jr.'s endorsement in August, Trump vowed that if elected, he would establish a commission on assassination attempts in honor of RFK Jr., who is now the Trump administration's secretary of Health and Human Services. Shortly after he began his second term, Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of all records related to President Kennedy's assassination, as well as the 1968 assassinations of RFK Jr.'s father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Sr., and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, all the documents related to the assassination were supposed to be released by 2017, when Trump was president the first time. Trump released some JFK-related documents then, but he also gave the intelligence agencies more time to assess the remaining files. It wasn't until December 2022 that President Joe Biden released more than 13,000 records after the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest nonprofit repository of the JFK assassination records, sued the administration to make all the documents public. But Biden only released about 98% of all the documents related to the killing that remained in the National Archives, which controls the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. 'It's high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,' Morley, who is also the vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, said at the time. 'This is about our history and our right to know it,' said Morley. The 4,700 or so records that were kept under wraps were believed to have included more information on accused Oswald's sojourn in Mexico City before the JFK assassination. Among those documents were 44 related to then-CIA agent George Joannides and a covert Cuba-related program he ran that came into contact with Oswald less than four months before Kennedy was shot, according to calculations made by JFK researchers with the Mary Ferrell Foundation. In a memorandum explaining why some documents were not being released, Biden noted that the records act 'permits the continued postponement of disclosure of information ... only when postponement remains necessary to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.' Prominent historians didn't buy that explanation. 'We're 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed and there's just no justification for this,' Judge John Tunheim, who chaired the Assassination Records Review Board from 1994 to 1998, said when Biden released the records.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's promise to release JFK files sets off all-night scramble by DOJ's National Security Division
The Justice Department's National Security Division has been in a scramble trying to meet President Donald Trump's promise on Monday to release declassified information from the JFK assassination investigation today. Trump, during a visit Monday to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, announced the government would be releasing all the files on Kennedy's assassination on Tuesday afternoon. Less than half an hour after that announcement, the Justice Department's office that handles foreign surveillance requests and other intelligence-related operations began to shift resources to focus on the task, sources said. MORE: JFK assassination files one step closer to possible public release In an email just before 5 p.m. ET Monday, a senior official within DOJ's Office of Intelligence said that even though the FBI had already conducted "an initial declassification review" of the documents, "all" of the attorneys in the operations section now had to provide "a second set of eyes" to help with this "urgent NSD-wide project." Eventually, however, it was other National Security Division attorneys who ended up having to help, sources said. Attorneys from across the division were up throughout the night, into the early morning hours, each reading through as many as hundreds of pages of documents, sources said. Only prosecutors with an impending arrest or other imminent work did not have to help, sources said. A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News. In promising the release of JFK files today, Trump said Monday that there is "a tremendous amount of paper." "You've got a lot of reading," he said. "I don't believe we're going to redact anything. I said, 'Just don't redact. You can't redact.'" Trump in January signed an executive order directing the "full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy" in order to end the decades-long wait for the release of the government's secret files on Kennedy's 1963 assassination. ABC News' Hannah Demissie and Molly Nagle contributed to this report. Trump's promise to release JFK files sets off all-night scramble by DOJ's National Security Division originally appeared on
