Adam Fox is sentenced to 16 years for planning to abduct Gretchen Whitmer from her holiday home.
The ringleader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
The group targeted the Democratic governor in 2020 because they were opposed to Covid rules she imposed early in the pandemic.As well as conspiring to abduct Ms Whitmer, Fox was sentenced for planning to use a weapon of mass destruction to blow up a bridge after the kidnapping, to make it easier to escape.
The militia group's kidnap plot was largely motivated by their opposition to public health measures during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the district court judge recognised that "a lot of fuel" had been necessary to fund conspiracies like the plot to kidnap the governor and Fox had been able to provide that fuel.
"These histrionic descriptions of Adam Fox do not rationally address his actual conduct and they do not accurately reflect either his actual intentions or his actual capabilities," he said.
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