Mandel Bidone, Mailing Threatening Communication, Connecticut 2023

A federal jury in Bridgeport has convicted a 34-year-old man for threatening violence on the Yale campus.

The U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Mandel Bidone on charges of mailing a threatening communication.

According to the evidence presented during the trial, in April 2022, while he was incarcerated in state custody, Bidone filed a civil complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut against “Yale New Haven Inc.” and other defendants alleging that he had undergone an illegal clinical trial administered by Yale University and, as a result, was seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

In October 2022, Bidone’s complaint was dismissed as frivolous.

In March 2023, Bidone mailed another civil complaint for money damages and other relief to the U.S. District Court’s Clerk’s Office in New Haven. The complaint, handwritten and separated between eight envelopes, contained many of the same allegations as in the first complaint, but included additional language at the top of the first page within each envelope some variation of the following: “If the District Court dismisses this case or looses (sic) any one of the pages of this complaint, Mandel Bidone will purchase an illegal firearm and discharge it on Yale’s campus aiming for the students and staff until his is gunned down.”

The charge of mailing a threatening communication carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years. Bidone is detained pending sentencing, which is not scheduled.

The investigation has been conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service, with the assistance of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Yale Police Department, and the New Haven Police Department.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/jury-convicts-man-who-threatened-violence-yale-campus