A Houston woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening a Florida judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents.
Announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Tiffany Gish, 50, announced Friday that she was found guilty of “using interstate communications” to threaten U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon.
Gish pleaded guilty in November, but Associated Press reported.
The Texas woman left three threatening voicemails for Cannon on the chamber phone. The Justice Department said she claimed she was a member of a military combat unit, that she had received training and that she was “familiar with weapons of war.”
Gish said the judge “would be shot in the head.” She “repeated the same threats” and “used expletives” in two other voicemails, the Justice Department said in a statement, adding that she ordered a sniper and a bomb threat to Cannon’s home. Ta.
U.S. District Judge David Hittner sentenced Gish to serve 37 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. She will remain in custody until transferred to a U.S. prison facility, the Justice Department said.
“Holding Tiffany Gish accountable for her threats to assassinate a federal judge is critical of those who threaten the safety of federal judges and undermine our democratic institutions, often behind far-flung keyboards and phone lines. It sends a strong message that we will not tolerate those (hidden behind the scenes) who help these same institutions thrive,” U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani said in a statement.
Cannon is the judge in charge of President Trump’s classified documents case. The exam date is May 2024. Investigators have accused President Trump of storing many top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
The case is one of several ongoing lawsuits against Trump, who is currently the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the next presidential election.
The charges against Gist come months after another Texas woman was arrested and charged with threatening to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing Trump’s federal criminal case for interference in the 2020 presidential election. It was conducted.
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