S.I. man charged with e-mail threats to Tom Brokaw

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A Staten Island man bombarded an email address at MSNBC with thousands of emails, including more than a dozen messages threatening NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, prosecutors charged in recently filed court papers.

A partially sealed, 66-count indictment filed in state Supreme Court on Staten Island alleges that Steven Koplan, 46, sent the emails “anonymously and otherwise” with the “intent to harass, annoy, threaten and alarm” Brokaw, the Staten Island Advance reported Friday.

Koplan allegedly sent 3,500 messages to MSNBC over two months last year, including 13 that threatened Brokaw, according to the indictment, which was filed on Thursday, the Advance said. The indictment, which was partially sealed, charges Koplan with second-degree aggravated harassment, a misdemeanor. The specific contents of the messages was not contained in the court papers.

Koplan, who pleaded innocent to the misdemeanor charge on March 10, said he did not intend to harm the anchorman. “Tom is just trying to help me,” he told the Advance. “I indicated to the staff at MSNBC I would never act out on any of that.” Koplan asserted he had never threatened Brokaw but he later told the Advance, “I’m no threat any longer to Mr. Brokaw.”He gave a meandering explanation of his behavior, attributing it to various events including the political assassinations of the 1960s and a kitchen installation company he claimed was trying to extort money from him, the Advance said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/219594p-188843c.html

[snippy]

1. Freeper. I can tell because he blamed "a kitchen installation company."

Freepers always blame someone else.

[Dover]

4. Cyber-rage........eom

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[tom_paine]

2. Yep. Freeper. Unquestionably.

[Dover]

3. But they still haven't managed to arrest someone for the anthrax

letter to Brokaw and others...

Why not?

[Corgigal]

5. Sounds like this guy is mentally ill

of course now he might get some treatment. Of course you have to do stupid shit like this to get treatment in this country anymore. We throw our mentally ill away also.