The co-leader of a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday in a U.S. District Court, prosecutors said.
Adam Fox, 39, was found guilty in August by a federal court jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on one count each of conspiring to abduct Whitmer, a Democrat, and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, prosecutors said. Described as the mastermind, Fox was accused of hatching a plot to break into Whitmer’s vacation home, kidnap her at gunpoint, and take her to stand “trial” on treason charges and face execution.
