Adam Fox, the convicted leader in a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, has been sentenced to 16 years in federal prison
Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020. A jury convicted Fox and an accomplice in August on charges of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. “There is need for public understanding of the cost of this kind of wrongdoing and certainly for specific deterrence as well.
“You could fairly say that none of this would have happened if Mr. Fox had not been involved,” prosecutor Nils Kessler said in court Tuesday. Jonker said in court that a sentence of life in prison is not necessary to serve as a deterrent to potential violence against public officials. “By advising a term of life in prison applies here, sends a clear message of just how serious a sentence is warranted for Fox.
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