ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama man who left threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because he was angry over an investigation into former President Donald Trump was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years in prison. Arthur Ray Hanson II, of Huntsville, made the phone calls just over a week before Trump and 18 others were indicted in Fulton County in August 2023 over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Federal prosecutors say Hanson left threatening voicemails laced with profanity and racial slurs for Willis and Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat.
U.S. District Judge J.
P. Boulee in Atlanta sentenced Hanson to serve a year and nine months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He also ordered Hanson to pay a fine of $7,500.
Hanson had pleaded guilty to leaving threatening phone messages . He apologized to Willis and Labat during Tuesday’s hearing. The indictment against Trump returned by a Fulton County grand jury on Aug.
14, 2023, was the fourth criminal case filed against the former president in a matter of months. It accused Trump and his allies of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to try to illegally overturn his narrow loss in the state to Democrat Joe Biden. When Labat was asked at a news conference shortly before the indictment happened whether Trump would have a mug shot taken if he was charged, Labat said, “Unless someone tells me differently, we are following our.