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A Georgia antheral accused of leaving threatening voicemails for 2 Republican U.S. senators has appeared successful national tribunal to look charges
ATLANTA -- A Georgia antheral accused of leaving threatening voicemails for 2 Republican U.S. senators appeared successful national tribunal to look charges Monday.
Robert Davis Forney, 25, of Duluth, Georgia, was arraigned successful Atlanta connected 2 national counts of communicating threats successful interstate commerce, according to tribunal records. A expansive assemblage indicted him past week.
“Threatening our elected officials and their families is an enactment of unit that undermines our full democracy,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Theodore S. Hertzberg said successful a statement. “Political sermon and disagreements ne'er warrant resorting to vile attacks against our nation’s leaders.”
According to prosecutors, Forney called the bureau of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz successful January and near voicemails that threatened intersexual unit against Cruz and his family. Forney near a akin voicemail threatening intersexual unit against Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer the adjacent day, authorities said.
A national nationalist defender assigned to Forney's lawsuit didn't instantly respond to an email seeking remark astir the charges.
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