A former Florida Republican congressional candidate gets 3 years for threatening primary opponent
A former Florida Republican congressional candidate accused of stalking and plotting to have his primary opponent murdered by a purported foreign hit squad has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Court records show William Robert Braddock was sentenced Wednesday in Tampa federal court. He pleaded guilty in February to sending an interstate transmission of a threat to injure. In 2021, Braddock and U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna were both candidates in the primary election to represent the 13th Congressional District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives. Luna eventually won the primary and later the general election. During a June 2021 telephone call with Luna’s friend, Braddock threatened to have Luna murdered by a “Russian-Ukrainian hit squad.”
