A 32-year-old man from Palm Springs, Calif., has been charged with making death threats against Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) over the tax cuts deal passed last month.
According to prosecutors, Charles Turner Habermann called McDermott's Seattle office at about midnight the morning of Dec. 10 and left two voicemails. In the expletive-laden messages, Habermann allegedly said he was going to kill McDermott as well as his family, his friends, and "everybody he fucking knows."
Habermann allegedly said he grew up in Chicago and could hire people to kill McDermott. The criminal complain notes that Habermann said he could afford it and has a $3,000,000 trust fund.
The messages, transcribed in the criminal complaint (PDF) released today, include lengthy rants against the tax cuts deal, which extended the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy as well as the middle class...............
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