BILLINGS, Mont.—A Montana man was convicted Wednesday of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after becoming upset that the government had not shot down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over his home city.
Richard Rogers, 45, of Billings, delivered the threat to a McCarthy staffer during a series of more than 100 calls to the Republican speaker’s office in just 75 minutes on Feb. 3, 2023, prosecutors said. That was one day after the Pentagon acknowledged it was tracking the spy balloon, which was later shot down off the Atlantic Coast.
