{"id":521083,"date":"2010-04-08T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fbe402b970c"},"modified":"2010-04-08T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T23:09:25","slug":"san-francisco-man-charged-with-making-threatening-phone-calls-to-pelosi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521083","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco man charged with making threatening phone calls to Pelosi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec8e3ec5970b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Getprev\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec8e3ec5970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec8e3ec5970b-250wi\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 10px; width: 250px;\"><\/img><\/a>Beginning in February, a San Francisco man made at least 48 threatening, obscene and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her support for a healthcare reform bill, according to federal court records unsealed Thursday.<br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/health\/healthcare\/la-me-pelosi8-2010apr08,0,6721602.story\" >Gregory Lee Giusti<\/a>, 48, was charged in federal court Thursday in San Francisco with making harassing phone calls to a government official.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>He appeared before Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman in a gray T-shirt and khakis,\u00a0 looking disheveled, according to the Associated Press. Zimmerman said Giusti may have a bipolar disorder and should be treated. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>An amended criminal complaint, along with a supporting affidavit by an FBI agent, allege that Giusti made many of the calls to Pelosi&#8217;s homes in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. He is charged with using a VOIP, or voice over Internet provider service, to make calls using a non-San Francisco area code, the records show. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Nine calls made to Pelosi&#8217;s Washington residence were recorded, according to the court records, which contain excerpts of some of the messages that warned the congresswoman not to act on the bill.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;If you pass this freaking healthcare plan don&#8217;t bother coming back to California cause you ain&#8217;t gonna have a place to live,&quot; Giusti said\u00a0 on March 25, according to the court records. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br> <\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman told the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office to interview Giusti to determine if he was mentally competent enough to be released to a halfway house or if he should continue to be detained, the AP reported. A detention hearing was scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <em>Gregory Lee Giusti.<\/em> <em>Credit: Associated Press\/San Mateo County Sheriff&#8217;s Department<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in February, a San Francisco man made at least 48 threatening, obscene and harassing phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her support for a healthcare reform bill, according to federal court records unsealed Thursday. Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, was charged in federal court Thursday in San Francisco with making harassing phone calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}