Authorities on Thursday charged a 22-year-old woman for allegedly threatening to murder Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
The woman, Penelope Convertino, allegedly left a threatening voice message on the voicemail for Blackburn’s Nashville satellite Senate office on May 30, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. Convertino was arrested Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the voice message, Convertino allegedly said: “My name is motherfucker and I’m gonna kill Marsha Blackburn. I’m gonna shoot her with a gun. I’m gonna blow up her head on national TV. She will literally have brains splattered behind her because she will not be a person. She will be a dead fucking body,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
“Our public officials should be able to do their jobs without receiving vile death threats,” Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire said in a statement. “Threatening public officials with deadly violence cannot and will not be tolerated. We will not hesitate to hold those who make these kinds of violent threats accountable for their crimes.”
If convicted, Convertino could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
“Threats against the life of any public official are unacceptable and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent,” Blackburn said in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “I am grateful to law enforcement and federal prosecutors in the Middle District of Tennessee for taking this threat seriously and for their swift action. My focus remains on serving the people of Tennessee, and I will not be intimidated or deterred by those who seek to silence me.”
Blackburn, who has served in the U.S. Senate since January 2019, announced her candidacy for Tennessee governor earlier in August.
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