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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Todd Richmond

Wisconsin man gets 16½ years in prison for forging threats against Trump in a deportation scheme

Trump Threat Letters - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A judge on Friday sentenced to 16½ years in prison a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a scheme to get the victim in a robbery case against him deported.

A Milwaukee County jury in January convicted 52-year-old Demetric DeShawn Scott of felony identity theft, witness intimidation, bail jumping and reckless endangerment. Judge Kristy Yang sentenced him to a year and six months behind bars on the identity theft count, five years on the intimidation count and 10 years on the endangerment count. She sentenced him to 882 days already served on the bail jumping charge.

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