US Charges 2 With Terror Crimes Over Threats to Spread CCP Virus

US Charges 2 With Terror Crimes Over Threats to Spread CCP Virus
The Justice Department building in Washington on Dec. 9, 2019. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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The Justice Department charged two people with federal terrorism offenses on April 8 for allegedly claiming they were intentionally trying to spread the CCP virus.

The charges, in cases in Texas and Florida, come about two weeks after Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen instructed federal prosecutors across the United States that they could charge people who threaten to spread the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus under the terrorism statutes because the Justice Department considers it a “biological agent” under the law.