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Kristin Keeble, age 54, of Pageland, South Carolina, admitted to transmitting threats to injure another person across state lines, according to the US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of New York.
Keeble sent four profanity-laced, racially derogatory audio messages through Facebook Messenger on Oct. 26, 2023 to a Greene County man who resides in the village of Catskill.
In the messages, she threatened to kill the man, along with a woman he knew and the woman's children, claiming she would hang all of them from a tree.
Keeble referenced acting with members of the Ku Klux Klan, authorities said.
From the victim's Facebook profile, she knew he was Black.
United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Craig L. Tremaroli, special agent in charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced the plea, noting the severity of the racial undertones in Keeble’s threats.
Keeble is scheduled for sentencing on Friday, March 7, 2025. She faces up to five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and up to three years of supervised release.
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