Man Pleads to Drunken Threat to Rep Swalwell So 27-33 Months With Trump Impersonation
Joshua Hall previously worked at Econolodge and Best Western Plus; he will be sentenced on both politically-related crimes on Dec 8, 2022. Inner City Press on the case(s)
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SDNY COURTROOM, Oct 28 - In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 28, Joshua Hall pleaded guilty to calling the office of US Rep. Eric Swalwell, drunk, and making a threat. Inner City Press was there for the plea, before SDNY Judge Gregory H. Woods, as it had been for Hall's previous proceedings for impersonating members of former President Trump's family.
On October 29, Hall allocuted that when he got out of a detox in Yonkers on August 29, 2022, he went on conservative social media. "Someone had posted the office number of Congressman Eric Swalwell and I called it."
He was asked if he made a threat. He guessed he did; he had been drunk.
On October 29 he was in an orange Westchester County DOC prison jumpsuit. He told Judge Woods he previously worked in hospitality, at Econolodge and then Best Western Plus. As he was led from the courtroom by US Marshals, he had a smile that seemed stoic.
For the previous charges and this one, he is now set to be sentenced on December 8, with a (combined) sentencing guideline of 27 to 33 months. His Federal Defender Clay Kaminsky said no additional time was needed as the existing Pre-Sentencing Report already to some degree addresses this conduct (that is, the drunk threatening call). The PSR, of course, is not public.
The case is US v. Hall, 21-cr-605 (Woods).
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