A longtime employee of Voice of America (VOA) was arrested Thursday and charged with making violent threats against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, her staff, and their families, federal authorities announced.
Seth Jason, 64, of Edgewater, Maryland, allegedly placed at least eight threatening phone calls from VOA headquarters between October 2023 and January 2024. According to the Justice Department, in one call, Jason said he would shoot Greene “between the eyes” with an AK-47 and warned, “We’re coming after you and your staff, and we are locked and loaded.”
The threats were made using various phone lines connected to VOA studios and control rooms in Washington, D.C., prosecutors said.
Jason, who began working at VOA in 2001, was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police and the Anne Arundel County Police Department (AACPD), where he had also served as a volunteer reserve officer since 2016. The AACPD confirmed his arrest and stated he is no longer affiliated with the department.
In a statement, Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro emphasized the seriousness of the charges: “You threaten a public official, and you face the full force of the law crushing down on you. There will be no mercy and no excuses.”
Jason is facing four federal charges: threatening to influence a federal official by targeting a family member, threatening a federal official, interstate communication of threats, and anonymous telecommunications harassment.
President Trump signed an executive order in March 2025 shutting down VOA, calling it “The Voice of Radical America.”
