Homosexual sentenced in FBI / Russian radioactive poison scheme against roommate

[Uranium One]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina man convicted of trying to
purchase radioactive material to put into his roommate's food to
kill him will spend just over six years in prison.

A federal judge in Charlotte sentenced 28-year-old Bryant Budi
to 78 months in prison, according to a Justice Department
statement. Budi and his roommate had been at odds for more than
a year before he went online to hire a hit man in spring 2018,
court documents obtained by news outlets revealed.

Budi alleged he wanted to kill his roommate, a friend who had
become homeless and moved in with him, because the man
threatened to kill Budi's family if he didn't give him money, an
affidavit from Christopher Nasca of the Department of Homeland
Security showed. Budi offered $4,000 to an undercover
investigator posing as a hit man, prosecutors said.

“My enemy that I am trying to get has been making my life a
living hell and extorting me for a year now,” Budi said in an
April 2018 email to the agent. “Basically make it look like
robbery went wrong,” he added.

Budi later returned to the illegal online marketplace to shop
for radioactive material himself, prosecutors said. Another
undercover FBI employee posing as a seller shipped him a placebo
powder. Budi also admitted in emails he tried to poison the
roommate before but the man had thrown it up.

In June 2018, federal agents arrested Budi. He pleaded guilty to
attempted possession of radioactive material with intent to
cause death or serious bodily injury to another person, the
first case of its kind in the federal courts, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Charlotte told news outlets. The maximum
sentence was life in prison.

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