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Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that "Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close ...
Threatening the government officials of the United States, particularly law enforcement officers, can in some cases fall under this statute. [2] It has been argued that the fundamental aim of this law was not to protect individual governmental officers, but to guard against the victimization of "government and its functions."
Assaulting, kidnapping, and assassinating the government officials of the United States, their families, and foreign dignitaries and official guests, is a crime under various statutes, including 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees), 18 U.S.C. § 112 (Protection of foreign officials, official guests, and internationally protected persons), 18 U.S.C ...
CNN assembled a list of federal criminal cases filed between January 2013 and November 2023 in which defendants were accused of threatening public officials or institutions.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Colorado man with threatening to kill election officials and a local judge, the Justice Department announced Monday. ... of threats against public officials ...
A man was sentenced on Monday to two and a half years in prison for harassing an Arizona election official, part of an effort by federal prosecutors to crack down on threats to public officials ...
The maximum fine it allowed was $1,000. The law was amended in 1994 to increase the maximum fine to $250,000. [42] Additionally, a 1982 law extended Section 871 to cover former presidents and candidates of major parties by adding Section 879 to Title 18 of the United States Code. [43] [44]
David Matthew Zwicker, 36, was charged with threatening the life, person or family of a public official, intimidation of court officials, harassment in the second degree and unlawful communication ...