Student Convicted of Threatening to Kill President Bush, Faces Up to 35 Years in Prison

by E Wayne Ross on June 29, 2007

Fox News: Student Convicted of Threatening to Kill President Bush, Faces Up to 35 Years in Prison

A Purdue University graduate student was convicted of threatening to kill President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and others in postings on the Internet.

Vikram Buddhi, 35, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus, was found guilty by a federal jury Thursday on 11 counts of making threats that were posted in a chat room in 2005 and 2006.