A former DuPage County prosecutor was sentenced for suggesting online that a bomb could go off at a LGBTQ festival.
Samuel Cundari was sentenced to home confinement and supervised release after pleading guilty to making threatening posts on X directed at the children of two state lawmakers, gun control groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office.
A former DuPage County prosecutor was sentenced earlier this month to home confinement and supervised release after pleading guilty to suggesting online that a bomb could go off at a downstate LGBTQ festival. Samuel Cundari, 32, an assistant state’s attorney at the time of the 2024 social media posts, also made online threats to two state lawmakers and gun control groups.He was sentenced March 2 to three years of mandatory supervised release, with one year spent in home confinement, records show. In a March 17, 2024, post on X, Cundari wrote, “Our patience grows short with you. The day we put your kids feet first into a woodchipper so we can enjoy their last few screams is coming,” according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The post was directed at two state lawmakers, gun control groups, a volunteer with one of the groups and the Illinois attorney general’s office. Another social media post on May 15, 2024, that prosecutors say Cundari made from a different X account suggested a bomb threat at the Springfield PrideFest. “I sure hope NOBODY leaves a pressure cooker filled with ball bearings, glass and nails, filled with diesel fuel and fertilizer, with the over pressure safety valve disabled, near a natural gas line. That would be VERY sad and VERY unfortunate,” read the post, which was made in reply to a separate post by an anti-LGBTQ organization, according to the complaint. Springfield PrideFest was sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield. The insurance company’s X profile received a similar bomb threat post that month from the same account, prosecutors said.Cundari, a Wheaton resident, met with an FBI agent the next day and admitted to making the social media posts but insisted the comments were made as a “joke,” prosecutors said. Cundari was a DuPage County assistant state’s attorney at the time of the posts, but he was removed from the job after being charged, according to the complaint.
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