Former Cornell student sentenced to nearly 2 years for threatening to kill members of the university’s Jewish community

A former Cornell University student was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for threatening to kill members of the university’s Jewish community last fall, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The former student, Patrick Dai, was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to Richard Southwick of the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.

Dai was arrested in October, days after a series of antisemitic threats were posted in an online discussion forum. At the time, he was a junior at the Ivy League school.
In April, Dai pleaded guilty to one count of making a threat using interstate communication after reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors, according to online court records. As part of the agreement, Dai admitted he published posts threatening to kill and injure Jewish people and “shoot up” Cornell’s kosher dining hall, which is next to the school’s Center for Jewish Living.

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