(Updated) KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man is facing a $9.9 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission after he sent racist, anti-Semitic and harassing robocalls to tens of thousands of phones across eight states.  The Daily Inter Lake reported Wednesday that the 2018 calls targeted Black and Jewish politicians, a journalist, the murder case against an avowed white supremacist who drove into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rhodes also allegedly made hundreds of calls to Iowans who were mourning the death of murdered college student Mollie Tibbetts. Tibbetts, a 20-year-old psychology student at the University of Iowa, went missing in the summer of 2018 after going for a jog in her hometown of Brooklyn. Her body was found in a cornfield during the summer of 2018.

Her accused killer, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who was 25 at the time, is Mexican national living illegally in the United States. The calls allegedly made by Rhodes said Tibbetts would have wanted to kill people the message referred to with racial slurs (meaning Mexicans/Latinos).

The FCC announced the fine on Jan. 14 and said Scott D. Rhodes repeatedly violated the Truth in Caller ID Act by manipulating the calls to make them appear local.