Sayoc sentenced to 20 years in prison for trying to kill Trump critics, including Obama, Clinton
"I am beyond so very sorry for what I did," Sayoc said before he was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by Judge Jed Rakoff, according to the Courthouse News service.
A package containing a "live explosive device" according to police, received at the Time Warner Center which houses the CNN New York bureau, in New York City, U.S. is shown in this handout picture provided October 24, 2018.None of the home-made bombs exploded, and "would not have functioned as designed," according to prosecutors.
"It is clear that the defendant perpetrated this attack intending to injure and silence public servants and private citizens based on their civic activities, and to intimidate like-minded people from entering the public arena and participating in discourse that is critical to the proper functioning of this country."Sayoc's lawyers had asked that he be sentenced to just 10 years in prison, the mandatory minimum for his crimes.
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