The co-leader of a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday in a U.S. District Court, prosecutors said.
Adam Fox, 39, was found guilty in August by a federal court jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on one count each of conspiring to abduct Whitmer, a Democrat, and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, prosecutors said. Described as the mastermind, Fox was accused of hatching a plot to break into Whitmer’s vacation home, kidnap her at gunpoint, and take her to stand “trial” on treason charges and face execution.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jonker told the sentencing hearing Tuesday he did not think a life sentence, as asked for by prosecutors, was appropriate, but that the crimes required a “significant sentence,” the Detroit News reported. Fox declined to speak during the sentencing and had no reaction to the sentence, the report added….