A federal indictment unsealed this week charges William Robert Braddock III, a former GOP congressional candidate from Florida, with threatening to kill a political opponent and an acquaintance during a 2021 primary race for Florida's 13th Congressional District, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced.
Braddock, 41, of St. Petersburg, allegedly made multiple threats during a June 8, 2021 phone call, including telling one of the victims that he would "call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to make his primary opponent, referred to in court documents as Victim 1, "disappear." Victim 2, a private citizen and acquaintance of Victim 1, was also targeted in the threats.
