BRUNSWICK, GA: A Glynn County man was sentenced in federal court after confessing that he threatened to blow up an IRS office in New York.
Benjamin Stasko, 34, of St. Simons Island, was sentenced to time served and put on 3 years of monitored release for his previous guilty plea on a charge of Interstate Transmission of a Threat to Injure, stated David H. Estes, U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Georgia. Given that his arrest in July 2020, Stasko has actually been in federal custody for an overall of 21 months– somewhat longer than the duration of custody suggested under federal sentencing standards.
” Benjamin Stasko’s sentence consists of a requirement for drug abuse treatment, which deals with the reasoning behind his inexpedient, harmful threat,” stated U.S. Lawyer Estes. “Thinking about the enormous police reaction produced by his actions, it’s lucky that the episode ended securely.”
Stasko confessed that on July 6, 2020, he published a discuss a federal firm’s site, declaring that a pipeline bomb had actually been planted in the Ted Weiss Federal Structure in New York, New York, as a threat directed towards the Irs. Federal Protective Service officers with bomb smelling pets and officers from the New York Cops Department browsed the center and discovered no dynamites. Private investigators later on situated and apprehended Stasko in St. Simons.
” The security of Irs staff members and residential or commercial property is among the statutory functions of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration,” stated J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. “Efforts to disrupt IRS staff members engaged in the efficiency of their main responsibilities are strongly pursued. We value the efforts of the U.S. Lawyer’s Office and our police partners in helping to safeguard the stability of federal tax administration.”
The case was examined by the U.S. Department of Treasury, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; the New York Cops Department; and the Glynn County Cops Department, and prosecuted for the United States by Assistant U.S. Lawyer E. Gregory Gilluly Jr. and Joshua S. Bearden.