A former Voice of America (VOA) employee was indicted by a grand jury over allegations that he threatened to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) along with her family members.
The four-count indictment, which was unsealed Thursday, charges Seth Jason, of Edgewater, Md., with 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 the indictment, Jason allegedly issued repeated threats from late January 2024 through early January of this year against Greene’s family members. From around Oct. 11, 2023, through late January 2025, Jason allegedly threatened to assault and kill Greene, the indictment showed.
Jason, a former VOA worker, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police and the Anne Arundel, Md., Police Department early Thursday morning.
Capitol Police’s probe found that calls were placed from “various” phone lines linked to studios and control rooms at VOA headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to the U.S. attorney’s office of the District of Columbia.
Jason threatened to use firearms to kill Greene, her staff and their families in eight calls made over fifteen months, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
“For 15 months, I received terrifying death threats from one individual who worked alarmingly close to my office building at the Voice of America. 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,” Greene said in an emailed statement to The Hill.
“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.”
Lake, who is serving as President Trump’s United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) adviser, thanked interim U.S. 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 said in a Thursday post on social platform 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.”
Jason worked at the VOA since the early 2000s, according to his LinkedIn.
Rome, Ga., Police Department late last year received an email containing a bomb threat directed toward Greene. The House member later confirmed she was safe, and the investigation was turned over to the FBI.
In late July 2024, a Georgia man pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Greene. Prosecutors said Sean Patrick Cirillo of Atlanta made three calls in November 2023 to Greene’s Washington office and made threats.
Updated at 6:09 p.m. EDT