Ex-Wife Is Sentenced in Plot to Bomb Muslims
The former wife of a podiatrist who plotted to blow up Muslim gathering places was sentenced in Tampa to three years in prison for possessing the bombs he planned to use.
Kristi Lea Persinger, 29, pleaded guilty in February to possessing five bombs, found in her closet, that her then-husband, Dr. Robert Goldstein, planned to use in an attack on an Islamic mosque and education center.
Persinger, who has denied knowledge of the plot, was sentenced to the maximum 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge James S. Moody.
“I don’t believe you can live in that apartment and be with him for that many years and not know what he was planning to do,” Moody told Persinger.
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