Sherbow has to also reimburse the US Govt. $538,282.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: A New York man, Aniruddha Sherbow, 44, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for threatening to decapitate Hawaii Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Sherbow, whose last known address was in Poughkeepsie, New York, was sentenced on Monday in U.S. District Court, reported Raw Story. He pleaded no contest in February to two charges of transmitting threats, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
Under a so-called “nolo contendere” plea, a defendant is convicted of the offense and agrees he could be proved guilty, but does not admit to the facts of the case.
The FBI and Capitol Police began investigating Sherbow after an email he sent to the FBI and several media outlets threats last August, vowing to find Gabbard and “sever her head from her body,” reported Roll Call.
Sherbow had been harassing Gabbard, since about February 2011, including making threats via email and telephone, prosecutors said. He was charged with two threats made in August 2013, one of them a voicemail message in which he threatened to kill her.
Mexican police arrested Sherbow in August 2013 on a U.S. warrant and transferred him to U.S. custody, the Raw Story report said.
As part of the sentence, Sherbow will have three years of supervised release after his prison term. During that period he is barred from contact with Gabbard.
He also must reimburse the U.S. government $538,282 for security expenses and undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment, if necessary, the prosecutors’ statement said.