Man who threatened to kill Ajit Pai’s children pleads guilty, faces prison

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A man who threatened to kill the children of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday.

Markara Man, a 33-year-old man from California, "faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 7" at US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Associated Press reported. Man pleaded guilty to the crime of intimidating, interfering with, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening to murder a family member.

Man sent threatening emails to Pai days after the December 2017 vote to repeal net neutrality rules, according to an FBI affidavit. One included the names and addresses of three preschools in or around Arlington, Virginia, and said, "I will find your children and I will kill them."

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