A former Northeastern University employee was convicted Friday of staging a hoax explosion at the school’s Boston campus in 2022 and lying to federal law enforcement officers about the incident.
On Friday, a jury found Duhaime, 46, guilty of one count of conveying false information about an explosive device and two counts of making false statements to federal law enforcement, the Justice Department“Bomb hoaxes like the one the defendant fabricated here have real life consequences,” acting U.S. attorney Joshua Levy said in a statement. “Communities are put in fear, law enforcement personnel are diverted from other important duties and there are significant financial repercussions.
Investigators also searched Duhaime’s work computer and found an identical copy of the threatening note stored in