A West Virginia man who admitted to threatening top U.S. health officials was sentenced on Aug. 4 to over three years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, handed down the sentence to Thomas Patrick Connally Jr. in federal court in Maryland.
Connally pleaded guilty to sending emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in 2020 and 2021 that contained threats, including one that said Fauci and his relatives would be “dragged into the street, beaten to death, and set on fire.” One had a subject line stating, “Cutting your scalp off and sewing it onto a rat.”…