A former Los Angeles deputy mayor — tasked with overseeing public safety — has agreed to plead guilty to faking an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall last year.
BREITBART -- The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the forthcoming plea this week after Brian K. Williams, 61, was charged with a single felony count of making an explosives threat, which could carry a ten-year prison term.
Prosecutors say Williams sent a text message to Mayor Karen Bass and other high-ranking city officials on October 3, 2024, that he just received a call from someone who threatened to bomb City Hall, writing “it might be in the rotunda.” Williams said in his text message:
Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that “he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.” I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat.
The call actually was made by Williams himself through the Google Voice application on his personal phone, according to prosecutors.
Mayor Bass handpicked Williams in 2023 and gave him responsibilities that included oversight of the city’s police and fire departments.
The fabricated threat was three months before the Los Angeles-area fires in January that ravaged its beaches, destroyed thousands of homes, and resulted in the deaths of 30 people.