Source: United Press International
“A former Republican House candidate from Florida has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for threatening to kill his political opponent. William Robert Braddock, 41, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge William Jung, the Justice Department said in a statement. The former Republican candidate for Florida’s 13th Congressional District pleaded guilty in February. He was charged with interstate transmission of a threat to injure. Braddock was running for the Republican nomination for the 13th Congressional District in 2021. Though court documents do not name the target of his threats, information in the filings and media indicate it was Anna Paulina Luna, the frontrunner in that 2022 election. … court documents state he threatened to ‘call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad’ who could make Luna ‘disappear.'” (05/22/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/05/22/William-Robert-Braddock-sentenced/7121747904092/