{"id":1577639,"date":"2022-07-29T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577639"},"modified":"2022-07-29T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:48:15","slug":"california-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-rep-matt-gaetz-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-rep-matt-gaetz-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"California Man Sentenced for Threatening to Kill Rep. Matt Gaetz: DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-rep-matt-gaetz-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577639&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A California man has been sentenced to six months of home confinement for leaving a voicemail in which he threatened to kill Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-matt-gaetz\">Matt Gaetz<\/a> (R-Fla.) in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time 59-year-old Eugene Huelsman, who is from Thousand Oaks in California, made threats of violence, when he called Gaetz\u2019s district office in Pensacola on Jan. 9, 2021, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Jason Coody for the Northern District of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> gave a warning to those who think that free speech might extend to death threats.<\/p>\n<p>While free speech is central to democracy,\u00a0Coody said Huelsman\u2019s threat via phone to kill Gaetz was \u201cclearly unlawful,\u201d particularly given he had\u00a0been investigated for similar threats of violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our law enforcement partners, we are committed to protecting public safety for all citizens,\u201d\u00a0Coody said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl\/pr\/california-man-sentenced-threats-made-against-local-united-states-congressman\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence acknowledges the defendant\u2019s repeated threats of violence and should serve as a significant deterrent to those who would threaten violence against others rather than engage in lawful debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the hearing, Huelsman pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced on one count of transmission of a threat in interstate commerce. The DOJ said that when no one answered the call, Huelsman left the expletive-laden threat as a voicemail.<\/p>\n<p>The death threat came just days after the event at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, during the certification of the 2020 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell [M.G.] to watch his back, tell him to watch his children,\u201d Huelsman said, according to an indictment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017c-bde8-dddc-a77e-bdfb4dfa0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a>) in which Gaetz was referred to as \u201cM.G.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m coming for him \u2026 I\u2019m gonna [expletive] kill him. I\u2019m gonna put a bullet in you and I\u2019m gonna put a bullet in one of your [expletive] kids too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, Gaetz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1453158737775144961?s=20&#038;t=ifYeJonAAbAvuwrxtd1JFQ\">said on Twitter<\/a> that\u00a0Huelsman was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man has been sentenced to six months of home confinement for leaving a voicemail in which he threatened to kill Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in early 2021. It was not the first time 59-year-old Eugene Huelsman, who is from Thousand Oaks in California, made threats of violence, when he called Gaetz\u2019s district office [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}