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A Travel Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling guns and drafting a hit listing of notorious Democrats and TV journalists awaits sentencing for his responsible plea to firearms and drug offenses
January 31, 2020, 6: 08 AM
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GREENBELT, Md. — A Travel Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling guns and drafting a hit listing of notorious Democrats and TV journalists is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday for his responsible plea to firearms and drug offenses.
Christopher Hasson, 50, faces a most of 31 years in penal advanced at sentencing by U.S. District Deem George Hazel. He pleaded responsible in October to possessing unregistered and unserialized silencers, being a drug addict in possession of firearms and unlawful possession of tramadol, an opioid painkiller.
Federal prosecutors instant a 25-year penal advanced sentence for Hasson. They’ve known as him a home terrorist and self-described white nationalist who became as soon as intent on conducting mass killings. Nonetheless they didn’t file any terrorism-linked costs towards him.
Defense attorneys suggested Hazel to spare Hasson from a penal advanced length of time and sentence him to penitentiary time served since his February 2019 arrest. Hasson’s legal professionals accused Justice Department prosecutors of fabricating a bogus fable that the married father of two grown teenagers became as soon as planning a terrorist assault.
After Hasson’s arrest, prosecutors filed a memo via which they acknowledged the Travel Guard officer “intends to demolish harmless civilians on a scale rarely viewed on this country.” They furthermore acknowledged Hasson drafted and tried to delete a June 2017 electronic mail via which he wrote that he became as soon as “dreaming of a technique to demolish nearly every final particular person in the arena.”
Prosecutors claim Hasson drew up what regarded to be a laptop spreadsheet hit listing naming Dwelling Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic presidential hopefuls, in conjunction with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He furthermore mentioned numerous community TV journalists, in conjunction with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Joe Scarborough and CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Van Jones.
Hasson’s attorneys suggested the mediate to “strip away the total speculation and rhetoric” and sentence Hasson “proportionately” for the crimes to which he pleaded responsible.
“The authorities’s unproven claims about his non-public recommendations and beliefs and its conjecture about his plans and motives form no longer comprise any inform in the sentencing court docket and could form no longer comprise any regarding the consequence,” they wrote.
Hasson ordered no lower than 4,650 tramadol pills from web distributors and had them shipped to his properties in Maryland and Currituck, North Carolina, in step with Assistant U.S. Lawyer Thomas Windom. The prosecutor acknowledged Hasson consumed numerous the pills, in total at work.
