Ex-Google Programmer Sentenced to 14 Months in Prison for Threats to Chief Justice Roberts

The perpetrator could have received 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Chief Justice John Roberts attends the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images

A man who used to work as a programmer at Google received a 14-month term in prison for threatening to kill Chief Justice John Roberts.

Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, was sentenced on April 1 by U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard in Jacksonville, Florida, after pleading guilty at the end of 2023 to transmitting an “interstate communication containing a threat to injure.”