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Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Kobe's Accuser
A California man pleaded guilty Friday to threatening the prosecutor and the alleged victim in the rape case against Kobe Bryant.
Cedric Augustine, 38, of the Los Angeles area, could get up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Augustine pleaded guilty to making interstate threats. In exchange, federal prosecutors dropped two dozen other counts, including attempted extortion and threatening to use fire or explosives.
Augustine, who appeared to be crying at times, admitted that he called Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert in 2003 and threatened his life and that of the 20-year-old Colorado woman who accused the basketball star of rape.
The criminal charges against Bryant were dropped in September after the woman said she no longer wanted to go forward with the case. She and the Los Angeles Lakers star announced March 2 they had agreed to an undisclosed settlement in her civil suit against him.
Bryant denied assaulting the woman and said they had consensual sex.
Source: AP
Cedric Augustine, 38, of the Los Angeles area, could get up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Augustine pleaded guilty to making interstate threats. In exchange, federal prosecutors dropped two dozen other counts, including attempted extortion and threatening to use fire or explosives.
Augustine, who appeared to be crying at times, admitted that he called Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert in 2003 and threatened his life and that of the 20-year-old Colorado woman who accused the basketball star of rape.
The criminal charges against Bryant were dropped in September after the woman said she no longer wanted to go forward with the case. She and the Los Angeles Lakers star announced March 2 they had agreed to an undisclosed settlement in her civil suit against him.
Bryant denied assaulting the woman and said they had consensual sex.
Source: AP