Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Democratic Presidential Committee (DNC) summer meeting on August 23, 2019 in San Francisco. Image by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

(Reuters) – A Florida man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Friday for threatening to behead U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said.

The man, 58-year-old Robert Pratersch of Kissimmee, in September 2018 left three voicemail messages at Sanders’ Vermont office where he made anti-Semitic threats and threatened to kill Sanders by beheading him in an “ISIS-style” video.

Pratersch was convicted in April of threatening a federal official and making threats over interstate communications media in April. He could have been sentenced to as much as 15 years in prison.

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A public defender representing Pratersch did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As far as I can tell, this case got very little attention until the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Florida put out a press release on it last week.

Robert Pratersch, 58, was sentenced on Friday to 15 months in prison for leaving these voicemails for Sen. Bernie Sanders. pic.twitter.com/h8KJLGgLT2

— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) August 26, 2019

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