A former paid staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s U.S. Senate campaign is among twelve people charged in a federal conspiracy to threaten University of Michigan leaders and terrorize the state’s Jewish community, according to a superseding indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors.
\n\nMariam Odeh, 24, is a Dearborn native. She worked for the Michigan Democrat’s campaign as recently as April. Prosecutors first charged her in June, and the 63-page indictment lists her as the seventh defendant. Her case is now one of twelve, after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced four more defendants.
\n\nU.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon tied the charges to centuries of violence against Jews. “From Pharaoh to Hitler to Hamas, those who terrorize Jews have been the bad guys,” Gorgon said. “As Americans, our job is to fight the bad guys.”
\n\nThe indictment names Odeh as president of the campus anti-Israel group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. Her lone charge is “conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate and foreign commerce.” It is a felony that carries a maximum of five years.
\n\nProsecutors allege the group spray-painted threats, broke windows, and threw glass jars filled with noxious chemicals into family homes. They marked victims’ homes…
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