GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A western Michigan man has been sentenced to 15 months of confinement after pleading guilty to making a threatening phone call last October to presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.
U.S. District Judge Janet Neff also ordered 52-year-old Rick Simmons of Kentwood to spend two years on supervised release and to pay a $2,000 fine Thursday.
Federal prosecutors say Simmons admitted to leaving a profane voice mail message at Booker’s Camden, N.J. office that included a threat to point a gun at Booker’s face and put “guns a blazin.”
Booker is seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
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