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Leader in plot to kidnap US governor sentenced to 16 years

Gretchen Whitmer was targeted in a foiled plot that US prosecutors say aimed to set off a ‘second American revolution’ [File: Carlos Osorio/AP Photo]

One of the men accused of masterminding a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, four months after he was found guilty in a Michigan court room.

Adam Fox was convicted in August of conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party, and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction in the scheme. He had faced a life sentence.

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