TEHRAN, Apr 06 - A man from the US state of New York has been arrested and charged with threatening to murder Ilhan Omar, a newly elected member US Congress from the state of Minnesota who is a Muslim, US federal prosecutors said.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Patrick Carlineo Jr. of Addison, New York, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted, the US Department of Justice said on Friday in a statement.
Prosecutors said Carlineo, 55, spoke by telephone with one of Omar’s staff members on March 21 and asked the employee: “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a (expletive) terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her (expletive) skull.”
The threat was referred to the US Capitol Police who launched a probe in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Justice Department said.
The FBI said in a criminal complaint that Carlineo said "he loves the president and that he hates radical Muslims in our government," the criminal complaint says.
In February, Omar said US President Donald Trump has “trafficked in hate your whole life.”
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