Ex-candidate sentenced to year in prison for death threats in Delaware
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DOVER, Del. - A former Delaware political candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nominations for governor and U.S. Senate has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of mailing threats to a lawyer who represented his wife in a divorce case.
Sixty-four-year-old Michael Protack was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in August to two counts of mailing a threatening communication.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of two years in prison.
Protack’s public defender asked that he be sentenced to the two months he already had served after his arrest in June.
Protack faced a maximum sentence of five years on each count.
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