The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the former primary opponent of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) was charged with threatening to kill a rival opponent during the 2022 election.
William Robert Braddock III, 41, was charged with threatening two people, the DOJ said, adding that one was his primary opponent in the 2022 election for Florida’s 13th Congressional District. He allegedly threatened to call a “Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” to make the opponent “disappear,” court documents say.
The indictment released by the DOJ last week did not name the alleged victims and did not specifically say whether Braddock threatened Luna.
One of Braddock’s primary opponents was Luna, who in 2021 alleged in court that he was stalking her and said he wanted her dead. He also made threats against another woman, Erin Olszewski, she said in court in 2021….