An FBI informant, credited with helping thwart a plot to kidnap and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and another man were recorded talking about torching the home of the Virginia governor, a federal prosecutor revealed Tuesday.
Additional details were not available but prosecutors have earlier said members of an alleged conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer also talked about leaving her in the middle of Lake Michigan and "taking out" a second politician, former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.
The new allegation emerged as prosecutors and lawyers for five men accused of plotting to kidnap and harm Whitmer argued Tuesday about evidence that could be shown to jurors at trial in March. During the hearing, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker signaled he was unlikely to grant a pending defense request to dismiss a kidnapping conspiracy case that has focused attention on violent extremism in Michigan.
