A San Diego man who sent a threatening letter to a conservative political commentator following Charlie Kirk’s killing was sentenced Wednesday by a Florida judge to 11 months in federal prison.
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George Isbell, 70, admitted to mailing the letter last fall to conservative media personality Benny Johnson just over a week after Kirk, a friend of Johnson’s, was fatally shot at Utah Valley University.
The letter alluded to various violent and deadly acts its author would “love to see,” though the letter’s author did not threaten to personally carry out those acts.
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Prosecutors wrote in their sentencing papers that numerous unsent “threatening and harassing” letters were later found in Isbell’s home, which were authored to Kirk’s widow and some U.S. Congress members, among others.
Isbell pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court in the Middle District of Florida to one count of mailing a threatening communication and one count of interstate threat to injure.
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