Maryland man pleads guilty to threatening Marjorie Taylor Greene

Maggie Trovato, Capital Gazette on Jan 27, 2026

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An Edgewater, Maryland, man and former Voice of America employee accused of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pleaded guilty last month to anonymous telecommunications harassment and threatening to kidnap or injure across state lines.

Seth Jason, 64, has a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 18. He faces up to seven years in prison after making threatening calls to Greene’s district offices.

In a statement following Jason’s plea, Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said Jason repeatedly threatened to assault and kill Greene, a Republican who represented Georgia’s 14th congressional district from 2021 until earlier this month.

“No one should have to live their life in fear wondering if those threats are about to be fulfilled,” Pirro said in the statement. “Today’s guilty plea sends a clear message — my office will not take these threats lightly — think twice because we will find you and we will convict you.”

Dennis Murphy, Jason’s attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Greene could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged that Jason made eight calls to Greene’s district offices between October 2023 and January 2025. According to court filings, Jason threatened to use firearms to kill Greene, her family, her staff members and her staff members’ families.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that in one call to Greene’s office, Jason said: “We are coming after you, we are coming after your family, we are coming after your staff, we are coming after your staff’s family. We are locked and loaded, and we are taking you out, you Nazi, you’re [an] antisemitic Nazi, and you all are going to pay the price.”

In another call, Jason said, “We are going to express how mad we are at Greene and her team of racist Nazi followers,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Investigators said Jason made the calls from “various phone lines” connected to his then-workplace, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Voice of America. At the time, Jason worked as a studio supervisor and lighting director for the government-funded international news agency.

Jason was indicted in July on four charges: influencing a federal official by threatening a family member, influencing a federal official by threat, interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure, and anonymous telecommunications harassment.

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