New York Man Sentenced for Making 12,000 Harassing Calls to Congress Members

A New York man was sentenced on Sept. 3 to 13 months in prison for making over 12,000 harassing phone calls to offices of congressional lawmakers and threatening to kill a staffer. Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was arrested in November 2023. He pled guilty in May to interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure someone, and for making repeated threatening phone calls. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly also ordered Lilly to serve 36 months of supervised release, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. Between February 2022 and November 2023, Lilly made over 12,000 phone calls to 54 offices of members of Congress; more than half of them to offices in the District of Columbia, the DOJ stated....