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Last year, a man named Andrew Nikhil Aiyar made a series of extremely violent and disturbing threats against my wife and children. He threatened to find my wife and hack her to death with a meat cleaver. He said that he would beat my children to death in front of me. These are some of his less graphic fantasies. He went on making deranged and gruesome threats, fixating especially on my wife, for a period of many weeks. And he did more than make threats. I won’t go into all of those details. He harassed and stalked other figures in conservative media in various ways. I’ll let those people talk about those experiences if they wish. At his sentencing, my wife was able to give a very strong and compelling victim impact statement where she implored the judge to punish this scumbag (my term, not hers) for his crimes. I’m proud of her for not doing the weak “I forgive you” routine, letting a degenerate predator off the hook in the name of misplaced pity. Aiyar was not remorseful. While hiding behind his “mental health” struggles, he refused to take accountability and even called my wife a liar during the hearing. At not point, even at sentencing, did this narcissistic freak apologize to my wife or express any regret at all. I am thrilled that his sob story was disregarded and he will now spend the next several years in federal prison. Obviously I would have liked for him to go to prison even longer, but four years is a lengthy sentence for these kinds of cases. In my experience at least, threats generally aren’t taken all that seriously by the courts and prison sentences are rarely given out. I’m grateful to Judge Merryday for doing the right thing, and giving this criminal almost as much prison time as he could under the law. The judge mentioned during sentencing that he assumes I would have much rather had those threats made against me than against my wife and children. He could not have been more correct about that. I signed up to be a "public figure." No one in my family signed up for it. They don't deserve this. If anyone threatens them in any way, we will not rest until the culprit is in jail. The anonymity of the internet won't protect you. And when the time comes for your sentencing, we'll be there to urge the judge to punish you as severely as the law allows. I hope Mr. Aiyar enjoys his time in prison. And when he gets out, if he says a single word about or to my wife or kids ever again for as long as he lives, we'll be happy to ensure that he goes right back in his cage.