Ex-Reporter Sentenced To Five Years In Prison for JCC Bomb Threats
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Sam Kestenbaum December 22, 2017
Juan Thompson, the former journalist who bombarded Jewish community centers with fake bomb threats in a revenge plot against an ex-girlfriend, was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison.
In a New York federal court, the judge called Thompson’s crimes “domestic terrorism,” the New York Post reported.
“This is domestic terror in the literal sense,” his one-time girlfriend Francesca Rossi said in court. “Juan devoted over an entire year to destroying my life,” she said, describing how Thompson made more than a dozen bomb threats in her name.
I can’t express the elation of today. My glorious client, Francesca Rossi, spoke the truth about her nightmare in a “#BelieveWomen” tshirt. And the judge did!! And sentenced Juan Thompson 14 months more than the guidelines recommended. pic.twitter.com/mtJ5V7q2Me
— Carrie A. Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw) December 21, 2017
Thompson was previously fired from the investigative website Intercept for fabricating quotes.
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