ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Colorado man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for threatening to kill a New Mexico state official and an attorney with a law firm in connection with a fraud case.

Federal prosecutors said Andrew Graham, 40, of Snowmass, Colorado, had pleaded guilty to sending interestate communications threatening to killing someone and was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Albuquerque.

Graham falsely believed an official with the state Department of Regulation and Licensing and a lawyer with a private law firm were complicit in his losing trust fund money in a...