California man pleads guilty to threatening to bomb Merriam-Webster over gender definitions – By Muri Assunção (New York Daily News) / Sept 16, 2022
A California man admitted to sending death threats to Merriam-Webster employees over the dictionary’s definition of gender in a vicious anti-trans rant that forced the company to temporarily close its offices in Massachusetts and New York for five days nearly a year ago.
Jeremy David Hanson, from Rossmoor, Calif., pleaded guilty last week to making threats to commit anti-LGBTQ violence against several individuals and businesses, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Walt Disney Company.
The 34-year-old was arrested in April and indicted by a grand jury two months later. He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass. to one count of interstate communication of threatening communications to commit violence, a federal crime.
He also pleaded guilty to another count charging the same offense, which had been initially filed in the Eastern District of Texas, targeting the president of the University of North Texas, Justice Department officials said in a statement Wednesday.
