A 43-year-old Florida man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a Supreme Court justice earlier this year, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Neal Brij Sidhwaney, of Fernandina Beach, faces a maximum of five years in federal prison, a fine of up to $250,000 fine, or both for one count of transmitting an interstate threat. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
According to a news release from the Justice Department, Sidhwaney called the Supreme Court office on July 31 “and left an expletive-laden, threatening voicemail message” in which he made repeated threats to kill a justice. Sidhwaney also identified himself by name on the phone call, the release said.
The Justice Department did not name the judge that Sidhwaney targeted, but court documents show it was Chief Justice John Roberts.
“The identified official is Chief Justice John Roberts whom he allegedly contacted by phone call and threatened to kill,” according to a court-ordered competency report submitted in September by a psychologist who evaluated Sidhwaney.
According to the report, Sidhwaney began expressing paranoia after leaving a job as a programmer at Google in 2017, and his mother said he grew angry watching the news, which prompted him to write letters and make calls to public officials.
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