US-Israeli JCC bomb hoaxer reportedly had accomplice

The Israeli-American teenager suspected of making hundreds of bomb threat calls to American Jewish institutions over the last several months, had an accomplice who helped him carry out

According to Channel 2, the 18-year-old from Ashkelon passed along personal information about Republican State Senator Ernesto Lopez from Delaware to his partner, who threatened the senator’s family and attempted to extort him.

A report on the TV station airs recordings of the conversions, in which the partner can be heard threatening to murder the Lopez’s wife and children if he failed to pay $8,000.

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