A Montana man who allegedly left antisemitic voicemails threatening to kill Gov. Josh Green did it to “shake him up,” according to court records.
Eric Lee Boltz, 51, was charged on June 3 with interstate cyberstalking and making an interstate communication containing a threat to injure a person after he made nine calls to Gov. Green’s office between Dec. 4 and Dec. 15, 2025, making violent antisemitic threats toward Green and his family.
According to an affidavit by an FBI special agent, Boltz, disguising his voice, first called Green’s office on Dec. 4, leaving a voicemail warning the governor that “We’re gonna f***ing kill you and your f***ing kids. Put them in the f***ing oven, you stinking f***ing Jew, you dumb f***ing Jew.”
Subsequent calls, delivered almost daily over the next two weeks, were similarly vulgar, invoking imagery of Holocaust death camps to threaten Green and his family.
Only one voicemail — the second one, delivered on Dec. 6 — appeared to express any kind of comment on Green’s political policies: the caller reportedly said “get your jobs” before continuing into antisemitic invective.
According to the FBI affidavit, Green’s staffers reported the calls to law enforcement and took undisclosed security measures in response.
FBI investigators traced the calls to a cell phone used by Boltz, who was in Arizona during the time of the calls. When the investigators contacted Boltz on Dec. 22, he quickly discerned the purpose of their visit, reportedly saying “Let me guess: this is about Josh Green out in Hawai‘i?”
Boltz told investigators he had been blocked by Green on Facebook and was frustrated at being unable to contact Green or his team on social media. He admitted to leaving the nine voicemails and said he “just wanted to shake [Green] up,” and was “being weird,” and added that he “went a higher level than [he] should have.”
Boltz was subsequently arrested and had his initial court appearance in Montana on Wednesday, June 10. The case was transferred to U.S. District Court of Hawai‘i; future hearings in the case have yet to be scheduled.
If convicted, Boltz faces up to five years in prison and fines of up to $250,000.
This is the second case involving death threats to a state governor to reach Hawai‘i courts this month. On June 1, Honolulu resident Ronald Saville, 48, was arrested in Texas for sending an email to Michigan State Police threatening to commit a mass shooting at the Michigan State Capitol, and calling the FBI to tell them he intended to kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Saville had previously been convicted in federal court for making threats toward then-president George W. Bush in 2006 and U.S. District Judge Susan Mollway in 2012. If convicted again, he too faces up to five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.
Saville’s case will also be heard by the U.S. District Court of Hawai‘i.
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