<P> Comedian Jonathan May - Bowles (also known as Jonny Marbles) pied Rupert Murdoch in July 2011 during a highly publicized testimony before a British parliamentary committee in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal . May - Bowles was sentenced to serve a six - week prison sentence at Wandsworth Prison in London; this sentence was later reduced to four weeks . </P> <P> In August 2010, a Michigan State University student named Ahlam Mohsem, 23, threw a Dutch apple pie into Michigan Senator Carl Levin's face and was arrested on assault and battery charges . The police also charged a man who allegedly distracted the senator before the pie was thrown . Mohsem said she threw the pie with the aim of "bringing to light Sen. Levin's war crimes" as a "Zionist". </P> <P> In September 2016, Sacramento, California, mayor Kevin Johnson was attending a charity event at Sacramento Charter High School when a man approached him and hit him in the face with a cream pie . Johnson then punched his assailant . The perpetrator, Sean Thompson, was arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and misdemeanor charge of battery on school . </P> <P> On 27 October 2011, the Spanish politician Yolanda Barcina was hit by three pies a meeting in Toulouse, France . The authors of the pie smash were Gorka Ovejero Bengoa, Deputy Mayor of Arruazu at the time, Julio Martín Villanueva and Ibon García Garrido, protesting against a high - speed rail line . On 27 November 2013 a Spanish court condemned all three to a fine of 900 euros and two years in prison each . An accomplice who did not throw a pie was condemned to one year in jail . Yolanda Barcina claimed bodily harm, suffered because of "the hardness of French meringue pie". </P>

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