Las Vegas man pleads guilty to threatening President Obama

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Posted April 13, 2016 - 4:17pm
Updated April 13, 2016 - 4:48pm
By JEFF GERMAN
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

A Las Vegas man who may be linked to the federal investigation involving rancher Cliven Bundy pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening the life of President Barack Obama and other government officials.

Tyrone Paul Ponthieux, 55, pleaded guilty to one felony count of making threats against the president in November 2014 and one count of threats against federal officials, including an FBI agent, in September ...

Ponthieux has agreed to cooperate and provide testimony about “other persons who are committing or have committed offenses against the United States,” according to his 20-page plea agreement. In return, prosecutors will seek a lighter sentence for him.

The Bundy investigation is not named in the plea agreement, but the same prosecutors in that case, including First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre, appeared in court Wednesday for Ponthieux’s change of plea ...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/las-vegas-man-pleads-guilty-threatening-president-obama

[Fla Dem]

1. Good, getting rid of the extremists one idiot at a time. nt