Ex-Google Programmer Sentenced to 14 Months in Prison for Threats to Chief Justice Roberts

Published on April 2, 2024

A man who used to work as a programmer at Google received a 14-month term in prison for threatening to kill Chief Justice John Roberts. Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, was sentenced on April 1 by U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard in Jacksonville, Florida, after pleading guilty at the end of 2023 to transmitting an “interstate communication containing a threat to injure.” Judge Howard joined the federal district court in 2007 after being nominated by President George W. Bush. On Jan. 2, she accepted a plea bargain reached by the prosecution and the defendant, according to records of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida....

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