Metairie Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Destroy Government Buildings
| U.S. Attorney’s Office December 03, 2009 |
ROBERT COMFORT, age 46, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to one count of threatening to kill his mother-in-law and also to destroy multiple government buildings by means of explosives, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten and David Welker, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to court records, COMFORT’s arrest followed an FBI investigation initiated after receiving information from the National Veterans Suicide Crisis Hotline that an unknown caller (later identified as COMFORT) stated his intent to destroy government buildings within a 15-mile radius of New Orleans.
COMFORT is scheduled to be sentenced on March 11, 2010, and faces a maximum term of imprisonment of ten (10) years, a fine of $250,000, and three (3) years of supervised release following any term of imprisonment.
The investigation was conducted by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracey N. Knight.