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A former Voice of America worker and reserve police officer was arrested Thursday after allegedly making steady threats to homicide Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and her household over a span of almost two years.
Seth Jason, 64, of Maryland, was arrested by the US Capitol Police (USCP) and is going through a four-count indictment for allegedly influencing a federal official by threatening a member of the family, influencing a federal official by menace, interstate communications with a menace to kidnap or injure and nameless telecommunications harassment.
Police additionally seized a laptop computer, a number of telephones, an iPad and a number of thumb drives.
Throughout a information convention on Thursday, U.S. Lawyer Jeanine Pirro mentioned the threats have been made “repeatedly and repeatedly” from October 2023 by the tip of January this 12 months.
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The threats allegedly focused Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA, her household, and her employees. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Pirro mentioned Jason was accused of creating statements together with, “I am wanting ahead to your ebook signing. We’re all armed and able to maintain you. We’re coming after you and your employees, and we’re locked and loaded. We will take you all out. We have our AK-47s. You are going to get one between the eyes. Bam, bam, bam.”
Employees members at Greene’s places of work have been additionally threatened, together with the employees members’ households, in accordance with Pirro.
Making the case much more egregious, Pirro mentioned Jason was a “rogue” former full-time federal authorities worker at Voice of America. She mentioned he used telephones within the management rooms the place broadcasters have been reporting to make the threats.
“For 15 months, I acquired terrifying dying threats from one particular person who labored alarmingly near my workplace constructing on the Voice of America,” Greene wrote in a press release Thursday to Fox Information Digital. “That type of sustained, focused harassment is deeply disturbing. I actually feared for my life, as I do with all the dying threats I obtain. I need to thank U.S. Lawyer Jeanine Pirro, Senior Advisor Kari Lake, the Capitol Police, and the prosecutors who took this menace severely and acted decisively to cease somebody who was planning to kill me. Threatening an elected official, their household, or their employees just isn’t free speech; it’s against the law, and it should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the legislation. My household and I are extremely grateful. Justice should be served.”
Seth Jason, a former Voice of America worker, made threatening calls to the Dalton and Rome District Workplaces for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R, Ga., in accordance with the DOJ. (Getty Photographs)
Jason is presently unemployed after retiring from Voice of America a couple of months in the past. The retirement got here as President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of the U.S.’s state-funded media outlet, with a federal decide later restoring the company.
“Via the management of President Trump, this sprawling federal paperwork is being held accountable, together with by the work of Kari Lake, who’s senior advisor to the U.S. Company for International Media, which oversees Voice of America.”
Lake took to social media to thank Pirro for “taking these threats severely.”
“I’m sickened by what Congresswoman @RepMTG, her employees and their households needed to undergo because the threats persevered for 15 months! It angers me {that a} taxpayer-funded VOA worker would use taxpayer-funded gear in a wicked technique to threaten the lives of individuals, together with an elected official,” Lake wrote in a submit on X. “If he’s discovered responsible, I hope he’s sentenced to the utmost period of time behind bars.”
Lake additionally mentioned it is time to shut Voice of America down.
Kari Lake is chargeable for overseeing Voice of America within the Trump administration. (Getty Photographs)
In the meantime, Pirro vowed to carry authorities staff to the best requirements.
“Nobody ought to need to stay their life wanting over their shoulder daily and questioning if these threats are about to be fulfilled… The menace to have your loved ones murdered in addition to your self, is debilitating.”
“My message in the present day ought to be loud and clear: This habits is against the law,” she added. “You threaten a public official, and you will face the complete pressure of the legislation crushing down on you. There might be no mercy and no excuses.”
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Mike Sullivan mentioned the view of threats in opposition to lawmakers has modified since former Minnesota Home Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, have been killed of their Minnesota house.
The suspect within the Hortman murders, Vance Boelter, additionally allegedly shot Minnesota state senator John Hoffman and his spouse, Yvette, on the identical morning.
“We’re going to work very, very arduous to carry you accountable in the event you make these threats,” Sullivan mentioned.
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Jason, who was a volunteer reserve officer with the Anne Arundel County Police Division, is not related to the company, a spokesperson instructed Fox Information Digital.
Pirro mentioned there isn’t a motive to imagine Jason was concerned in prior swatting incidents reported by Greene.
