ALBANY — A man incarcerated in federal prison admitted Friday that he mailed bomb threats to a federal judge, a U.S. representative and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Dennis J. Nelson, 51, said he sent the letters in 2018 and 2019, while incarcerated in New York’s prison system. He is now at a Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Facility in Devens, Mass.
He pleaded guilty Friday under a plea agreement in which he would be sentenced to 84 months. He also faces a fine of up to $250,000, according to U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi of the FBI’s Albany office. The sentencing date has yet to be determined.
Nelson said he mailed the bomb threat to federal judge Thomas J. McAvoy in Binghamton on Aug. 1, 2018, saying McAvoy and those at the federal courthouse would be killed. He also admitted that on July 15, 2019 he mailed bomb threats to the offices of Schumer and then-congressman Anthony Brindisi, saying those men would be killed.
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