Man gets 12 years for assisting Gov. Whitmer kidnap plotter
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE
Associated Press
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — One of three men who forged an early alliance with the leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for assisting him before the FBI broke up the scheme in 2020. Pete Musico was the first man to be sentenced in Jackson County on Thursday. He will be followed by son-in-law Joe Morrison and Paul Bellar. They were convicted in October of providing material support for a terrorist act, which carries a maximum term of 20 years. Morrison, Musico and Bellar were members of a paramilitary group known as the Wolverine Watchmen. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was never physically harmed by the plot.