The Georgia man who pleaded guilty to making multiple death threats to Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA-14) was reportedly sentenced on Friday to supervised released and five months of confinement, which will be credited against his time spent in custody while his case was determined, meaning no additional prison sentence was imposed.
Sean Patrick Cirillo was sentenced to three years of supervised release and five months, credited against the time he already spent in federal custody, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in its Friday reporting of the sentencing. Law360 confirmed no additional prison sentence was imposed beyond the five months Cirillo already spent in custody.
The sentencing comes nearly six months after the DeKalb County man pleaded guilty to making threats against Greene and members of her congressional staff in July.
“Yeah, I got a bead on her. Like, a sniper rifle. A sniper rifle. And I’m gonna kill her next week. I’m gonna murder her. I’m gonna shoot her in the [expletive] head, okay? Tell the FBI, okay? I’m gonna kill this [expletive]. Tell her. I’ll kill you too if you want,” Cirillo told a staffer in Greene’s Washington, D.C. office on November 8, 2023, according to Department of Justice (DOJ).
Cirillo further told the staffer, per the DOJ, “You don’t think you’re gonna get payback? You’re gonna die! Your family is gonna die! [Expletive!] You don’t think it’s gonna happen when you’re out of power?”
His death threats came only months after she was first the victim of a swatting incident in August, and just over one month before Greene was the victim of another swatting incident on Christmas Day. Swatting is the practice of illegally reporting a false emergency at an address to provoke an intense police response.
After the second swatting incident, Greene posted screen shots of a previous death threat to the social media platform X, writing that days ago, “we received this death threat where this man is saying I will be shot in the head and skinned to make a ‘parasol’ making a reference to Gein, who was a psychopath killer who would make things out of his victim’s skin.”
She wrote, “He also says he would like to smash Pres Trump’s and Brian’s heads on a curb,” referring to President-elect Donald Trump and Brian Glenn, the former Right Side Broadcasting host who she is dating.
Greene is reportedly angling for a position in the upcoming Trump administration, arguing the president-elect should choose cabinet members based on loyalty.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
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