By: Najla Alexander
NJ AG officials announced that a Morris County man admitted to making interstate death threats against a political commentator.
U.S. Attorney Alina Habba stated that Haim Braverman, 47, of Morris Plains, entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge Evelyn Padin in Newark federal court to an Information charging him with transmitting threats in interstate commerce.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 15, 2025, NJ AG officials say. 
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
NJ AG authorities stated that on or about September 10, 2024, Braverman posted a video of himself on a social media platform in which he made various threats to a political commentator.
Braverman admitted to having been angered by the commentator’s public statements about a prominent, now-deceased rabbi whom Braverman respected, according to NJ AG officials.
In the video, NJ AG officials say, Braverman threatened to use a bat he was holding against the commentator, stating: “[y]ou’ll get what’s coming to you . . . , I’ve never met someone . . . if I could f**king kill you right now, I would not even . . . , f**k it I’ll give you the steel bat. I wouldn’t even stop. I’d kill you. Dead. . . . I’m threatening a death sentence against [the commentator].”
According to NJ AG officials, Braverman also included a written comment on his post in which he stated: “[The commentator] needs to be killed.” Braverman also transmitted an audio message to a group chat on a messaging application, referencing the commentator and stating, “[a]fter I heard what... [the commentator] said, I will go to prison, gladly find her and kill her . . . I will find a f**king weapon and f**king kill her. I am outraged.”
U.S. Attorney Habba credited special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Acting Special Agent in Charge Terence G. Reilly, and the Morris County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff James Gannon, with the investigation leading to this plea.