A longtime federal employee who used his government office and equipment to wage a 15-month campaign of anonymous death threats against former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R?GA) has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, underscoring the escalating danger faced by high-profile conservatives who refuse to be intimidated into silence.
According to RedState, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced that 65-year-old Seth Jason of Edgewater, Maryland, received the sentence in U.S. District Court after pleading guilty to one count of interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure and one count of anonymous telecommunications harassment. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan also ordered Jason to serve two years of supervised release after completing his prison term, reflecting the seriousness with which the court viewed his sustained campaign of intimidation.
Pirro previewed the outcome in a post on X shortly before Thursdays hearing, highlighting both the nature of the threats and the disturbing setting from which they were made. Seth Jason repeatedly threatened to assault and kill former Congresswoman Greene and he did so from inside Voice of America where he had a taxpayer-funded job. His menacing phone calls were part of an alarming increase in threats directed at Members of Congress and other government officials. No one should have to live their life in fear wondering if threats are about to be fulfilled. Today's sentence sends a clear message. My office will not take these threats lightly.
The facts laid out by prosecutors paint a damning picture of a federal worker abusing his position and the public trust. Over a span from October 2023 through January 2025, Jason placed eight threatening calls to Greenes congressional offices, every one of them traced to phone lines inside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Voice of America (VOA), the government?funded international broadcaster where he had been a longtime employee.
Court filings show that the threats did not remain vague or impulsive but became increasingly graphic and specific as time went on. In an October 11, 2023, voicemail, Jason said he and his friends wanted to attend a Greene rally with their AK-47s and shoot the congresswoman one between the eyes, a chilling invocation of political violence masquerading as political expression.
Just two days later, he escalated further, leaving another message in which he boasted that he and others had stockpiled ammunition and were preparing to come after Greene and her offices and her staff and exercise our Second Amendment rights and take them all out. The invocation of the Second Amendment as a pretext for assassination threats underscores how extremists attempt to twist constitutional language to justify criminal conduct that conservatives overwhelmingly reject.
The threats reached their most fevered pitch around President Donald Trumps inauguration in January 2025, a timing that speaks volumes about the political animus driving Jasons conduct. On January 8, 2025, just 12 days before the inauguration, he left a voicemail warning that Greene would not see the inaugural and that she, her staff, and her family would all be dead, explicitly extending his threats beyond the congresswoman herself.
The day after the inauguration, Jason called again, telling Greenes office they were as good as dead and to make your last will ready, because we are coming after you, and the only thing you're going to hear is bangI'm yearning to hear you cry for your last breath. Such language, far from protected political speech, is the textbook definition of criminal intimidation aimed at driving an elected official out of public life through terror.
The case became public in July 2025, when U.S. Capitol Police, working with the Anne Arundel County Police Department, arrested Jason after tracing the calls to multiple lines within VOAs facility. Investigators quickly established that the threats had been made from inside a federally funded newsroom, raising serious questions about internal oversight and the culture within certain corners of the federal bureaucracy.
At the time of his arrest, Jason was not only a VOA employee but also a volunteer reserve officer with the Anne Arundel County Police Department, a position the department confirmed he no longer holds. The revelation that a sworn reserve officer and federal media employee was simultaneously issuing death threats to a sitting member of Congress only deepened public concern about politicization and extremism within institutions that are supposed to be neutral and accountable.
Jason ultimately admitted in court that he made all eight threatening calls while employed at the government-funded outlet and entered a guilty plea in December 2025. The investigation was led by the U.S. Capitol Police and the State Department Office of Inspector General, with Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan M. Horan and Assistant U.S. Attorney Travis Wolf handling the prosecution, signaling that federal authorities recognized the gravity of the case.
For Greene, Jasons conviction did not mark the end of the danger. She has reported that death threats continued even after his arrest, noting a surge in threats, including against her son, following her break with President Trump over the government shutdown, a political dispute that drew intense backlash from some on the right and left her exposed to renewed hostility from the left.
Greene cited the unrelenting wave of threats as one of the factors in her decision not to seek reelection and to leave office in January 2026, a sobering example of how sustained intimidation can drive outspoken conservative voices from the public square. When a sitting member of Congress concludes that the personal cost to her family has become too high, it raises profound questions about whether the nation is willing to protect robust political dissentespecially when it comes from the right.
Thursdays sentencing serves as a stark reminder that threatening elected officials is not a form of protest but a serious federal crime that carries real consequences. With the U.S. Capitol Police repeatedly warning that threats against members of Congress have reached historic levels, the fact that Jasons campaign of terror was conducted from inside a taxpayer-funded media outlet only underscores how overdue meaningful accountability is for those who weaponize government positions against conservative officials.
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