Gay Man Convicted of Threatening to Kill George Santos
guilty of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Following a two-day trial, the jury found Frank Stanzione, 53, of Boynton Beach, guilty of transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to kidnap or injure another person for leaving an expletive-laden message on the voicemail of the former congressman’s Washington office.
According to prosecutors, Stanzione called the office from his home on January 29, 2023, and began recording a message in which he called Santos, a “fat fucking piece of shit fucker.”“You better watch your mother fucking back because I’m gonna bash your motherfucking f****t head in with a bat until your brains are splattered across the fucking wall.
You lying, disgusting, disgraceful mother fucking f****t. You mother fucking piece of shit. You’re gonna get fucking murdered you goddamn lying piece of garbage,” Stanzione said in the voicemail. “Watch your back, you fat, ugly piece of shit.”Stanzione then leveled one final threat against Santos and his husband, saying that both man “are dead.”Santos’s staff reported the threatening voicemail to the U.S.
Capitol Police, who opened an investigation the following day. They determined the phone call had been made from a number assigned to Stanzione.
