{"id":82261,"date":"2018-10-11T09:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82261"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:07","slug":"veteran-convicted-of-threatening-n-j-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82261","title":{"rendered":"Veteran convicted of threatening N.J. congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=4459571\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A veteran has been convicted of threatening to kill New Jersey congressman Frank LoBiondo and members of his staff.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-nine-year-old Joseph Brodie of Millville was convicted in Camden federal court on Wednesday of making threats to officials and employees of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Brodie was unhappy with his healthcare treatment from the VA, when he reached out to LoBiondo&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>They say he became angry and made the threats when the Congressman&#8217;s chief of staff refused to arrange a meeting between him and the lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The jury deliberated for approximately six hours before returning the verdict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I go to one of the best VA facilities in the country.\u00a0 They have been amazing.\u00a0 Going there later today on a 6 month follow up after they cut out parts of my throat to save me from dying.\u00a0 I will have to sit around for a short while and listen to a few other constantly bitch about the free healthcare they are getting and why they should be getting $10,000 a month for their service-related injury that went undocumented for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor is 82, an old retired Navy guy that knows how to say STFU.\u00a0 He is the greatest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran has been convicted of threatening to kill New Jersey congressman Frank LoBiondo and members of his staff. Thirty-nine-year-old Joseph Brodie of Millville was convicted in Camden federal court on Wednesday of making threats to officials and employees of the United States. Prosecutors say Brodie was unhappy with his healthcare treatment from the VA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-debate","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/vafacility.jpg?fit=1200%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-loN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}