A former Voice of America employee and reserve police officer was arrested Thursday for allegedly making repeated threats to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and her family over nearly two years.
Seth Jason, 64, of Maryland, was taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police and is facing a four-count federal indictment. The charges include threatening a federal official by targeting a family member, threatening a federal official directly, making interstate threats to kidnap or harm, and anonymous telecommunications harassment.
Authorities also seized a laptop, several phones, an iPad, and multiple thumb drives during the arrest, Fox News reported. During a news conference on Thursday, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said the threats were made “repeatedly and continuously” from October 2023 through the end of January this year. It’s not clear why it took authorities so long to move against Jason.
Pirro said Jason was accused of making statements including, “I’m looking forward to your book signing. We are all armed and ready to take care of you. We’re coming after you and your staff, and we are locked and loaded. We’re going to take you all out. We’ve got our AK-47s. You’re going to get one between the eyes. Bam, bam, bam.”
Staff members at Rep. Greene’s offices were also targeted, along with their families, according to Pirro. Adding to the severity of the case, Pirro described Jason as a “rogue” former full-time federal employee at Voice of America, alleging he used phones located in the network’s control rooms—while broadcasts were underway—to issue the threats.
“For 15 months, I received terrifying death threats from one individual who worked alarmingly close to my office building at the Voice of America,” Greene wrote in a statement Thursday to Fox News Digital. “That kind of sustained, targeted harassment is deeply disturbing.
“I truly feared for my life, as I do with all of the death threats I receive. I want to thank U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, Senior Advisor Kari Lake, the Capitol Police, and the prosecutors who took this threat seriously and acted decisively to stop someone who was planning to kill me,” her statement continued.
“Threatening an elected official, their family, or their staff is not free speech; it’s a crime, and it must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. My family and I are incredibly grateful. Justice must be served,” she said.
Pirro vowed to hold government employees to the highest standards. “No one should have to live their life looking over their shoulder every day and wondering if those threats are about to be fulfilled… The threat to have your family murdered as well as yourself, is debilitating,” she said.
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