A 51-year-old Alexandria man has been charged with sending numerous e-mails threatening to kill white judges in South Carolina where he has filed a civil suit against the United States, the FBI said Thursday.
Stephen H. Rosenberg was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with transmitting across state lines threats to kill the judges as well as making threats designed to influence or intimidate a federal judge hearing his civil case.
The FBI said Rosenberg, who is white, appeared in front of a federal judge in South Carolina on May 11 and since that time has sent “numerous e-mail transmissions to the same judge, including an April 6, 2009 transmission which contained a threat to kill white judges in South Carolina, and a threatening communication designed to influence or intimidate the judge with regard to the civil suit.
