Former VOA employee indicted for threats against Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family

The indictment, which was unsealed on Thursday, reveals a series of threats made over a 15-month period. Seth Jason, of Edgewater, Maryland faces four charges: influencing a federal official by threatening a family member; anonymous telecommunications harassment; influencing a federal official by threat; and interstate communications with a threat to injure or kidnap.

According to prosecutors, from late January 2024 through early January 2025, Jason issued repeated threats targeting Greene’s family members, reports The Hill. The indictment also alleges that from October 11, 2023, through January 2025, Jason threatened to assault and kill the congresswoman.

Jason was arrested early Thursday by the US Capitol Police in coordination with Anne Arundel County police.

The Capitol Police investigation traced the threatening calls to multiple phone lines associated with studios and control rooms at the VOA headquarters in Washington, DC, the US attorney’s office for the District of Columbia said.

Jason allegedly used taxpayer-funded equipment to place at least eight threatening calls over the 15-month span. Authorities say he threatened to use firearms to kill Greene, her staff, and their families.

Kari Lake, who is currently serving as President Trump’s adviser to the United States Agency for Global Media, responded to the indictment on Thursday. She thanked interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro for "taking these threats seriously."

“I am sickened by what Congresswoman @RepMTG, her staff and their families had to go through as the threats persisted for 15 months,” Lake wrote on X. “It angers me that a taxpayer-funded VOA employee would use taxpayer-funded equipment in a depraved way to threaten the lives of people, including an elected official. If he is found guilty, I hope he is sentenced to the maximum amount of time behind bars.”

In a separate incident, a Georgia man named Sean Patrick Cirillo pleaded guilty in July 2024 to making three threatening calls to Greene’s Washington, DC office in November 2023.