As you may be aware, Lev Parnas, who was a part of the Trump/Giulani attempts to gin up a phony investigation of the Bidens in the Ukraine, got the judge’s permission, and gave a bunch of documents to the Congress relating to the affair.
Among other things, there are communications that indicate that they were discussing a plot to assassinate ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, which is kind of a bombshell. (One that I am not discussing here, because I STILL cannot wrap my head around this, do your own diary about this and it is already up on the front page)
At the center of those discussions was Robert F. Hyde, lobbyist, congressional candidate, and sometime landscaper, who appeared to have Yovanovitch under surveillance from some remarkably dodgy characters.
Well, David Corn found something interesting about this guy:
So, Mr. Hyde (insert Dr. Jeckyll joke here) was involuntarily committed.
This means that under 18 U.S.C. § 922(d) he cannot possess firearms.
Has the local constabulary or the ATF been notified of this, he lives in Connecticut, and the commitment was in Florida, so the information has not been transmitted.
In the interests of safety, these weapons must be secured.
(UPDATE)
It appears that his weapons were taken at some point:
In June, Connecticut State Police required that he turn over three rifles, two shotguns and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition because of a protection order, according to records from the Simsbury Police Department. It’s unclear what led to the protection order. A week later, records show members of a Simsbury church asked police to tell Hyde not to return because of his “unsettling behavior and political campaigning,” accusing him of taking videos of himself in and around the church for political purposes and later posting them on social media.