New York State Police on Sunday arrested a man who threatened by text to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at a speech he was making in New York City on Monday.
Court documents say Christopher Moynihan vowed to “eliminate” Jeffries when he spoke at the Economic Club of New York, CBS News reported.
Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” Moynihan wrote, according to the court filing. “Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future.”
Moynihan was one of the first rioters to breach police barricades at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was arrested and found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding and pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors. He was sentenced in February 2023 to nearly two years in prison but was among the more than 1,500 Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald J. Trump when he began his second term in office earlier this year.
New York State Police said they made the arrest after they were contacted by the FBI and told that Moynihan had made threats to kill a member of Congress.
He now faces a state charge of making a terroristic threat and was remanded to jail “in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, a $30,000 bond, or an $80,000 partially secured bond,” police said. He is due back on court on Thursday.
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[Featured image: Christopher Moynihan entering the US Capitol on January 6, 2021/US Department of Justice]
