Florida congressional candidate charged with threatening to kill primary opponent

The Justice Department revealed an indictment Friday charging a Florida man with threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021.

William Robert Braddock III, 41, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was charged with threatening two people, one of whom the DOJ said was his primary opponent in the 2022 election for Florida's 13th Congressional District. Braddock allegedly threatened to "call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit.

The DOJ indictment did not name the alleged victims.

One of Braddock's primary opponents and the race's eventual winner, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., contended in 2021 court documents that Braddock was stalking her and wanted her dead.

A Florida court in 2021 granted Luna and a conservative activist and friend of hers, Erin Olszewski, a temporary restraining order.

Braddock terminated his campaign in 2021 shortly after the judge granted the injunction.
squad" and make the primary opponent disappear, according to the indictment.

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