The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced that Eric James Rennert (56), of Champaign, Illinois, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for sending multiple threatening emails to a U.S. District Judge in South Florida, including threats aimed at the judge and the judge’s family. Court records say the messages were sent between May and July 2024 and escalated over time. Rennert pleaded guilty to three counts of threatening a federal judge with intent to intimidate or retaliate; the FBI Miami investigated and federal prosecutors in SDFL handled the case.