Judge Denies Rep. Greene's Request for Threatener to Fund Home Security

The ruling states that federal law would only authorize the restitution if Greene had suffered a 'loss of property.'

U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes denied Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's request for Joseph Morelli, a man convicted of threatening her, to pay for a $65,000 security fence she installed at her home.
Morelli was sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of transmitting interstate threats over voicemail messages he left at Greene’s Washington office in March 2022.
Greene demanded $66,632 she spent constructing a security fence and reconfiguring her closed-circuit television system at her home in Georgia using campaign funds.
Judge Sannes ruled that federal law would only authorize the restitution if Greene had suffered a “loss of property.”
Judge Sannes also noted that Greene’s office received threats from many other individuals and that she didn’t make the upgrades until months after Morelli’s voicemails.