West Fargo man gets 18 months in prison for threatening to kill federal judge

ST. PAUL — A West Fargo man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for threatening to murder a federal judge.

Robert Phillip Ivers, 65, was convicted by a federal jury last September and sentenced Friday, March 1, in U.S. District Court in St. Paul.

In the case, U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright held a bench trial on a civil lawsuit in January 2017 brought by Ivers and ruled against him. He was trying to recoup proceeds from his policy with a life insurance company.

Ivers, according to testimony in the September trial, sent a series of threatening letters to the judge and called a court employee to say he was "crazy angry" at the judge and described himself as a "walking bomb."

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