“More than two years after his arrest, Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting the kidnap of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in what the government has described as one of the biggest domestic terrorism cases in recent American history,” the Detroit Free Press reports.
“The government had sought a life sentence for Fox, arguing he was part of a violent extremism movement that sought not only to kidnap the governor, but to spark a civil uprising.”
“But the judge gave Fox the mercy he was looking for as his lawyer, Christopher Gibbons, had long argued against a life sentence, maintaining: Fox was a follower, not a leader, and looked up to FBI informants and undercover agents who had accompanied Fox and others during training sessions and reconnaissance of the governor’s vacation home near Traverse City.”
