{"id":10944,"date":"2025-10-21T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:30:30","slug":"pardoned-jan-6-capitol-rioter-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-brooklyn-rep-and-house-democratic-leader-hakeem-jeffries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10944\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardoned Jan. 6 Capitol rioter arrested for threatening to kill Brooklyn rep and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A rioter involved in the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, who President Donald Trump pardoned earlier this year, faces criminal charges again \u2014 this time for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), New York State Police announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

REUTERS\/Leah Millis\/File photo<\/p>\n

A rioter involved in the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,<\/a> who President Donald Trump pardoned earlier this year<\/a>, faces criminal charges again \u2014 this time for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn), New York State Police announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Police charged<\/a> Christopher Moynihan, 34, of Clinton, on Oct. 18 for making a terroristic threat, a Class D felony. Moynihan was arraigned before the Town of Clinton Court, remanded to the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center, and is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The State Police worked with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation at Poughkeepsie and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate the case and make the arrest.<\/p>\n

According to court documents obtained by CBS News<\/a>, Moynihan allegedly wrote in text messages that he planned to \u201celiminate\u201d Jeffries at an event on Monday; the minority leader gave an address to the Economic Club of New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cHakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live,\u201d Moynihan allegedly wrote, according to court documents obtained by CBS.<\/p>\n

\"HakeemAccording to court documents obtained by CBS News, Moynihan allegedly wrote in text messages that he planned to \u201celiminate\u201d Jeffries at an event on Monday; the minority leader gave an address to the Economic Club of New York.REUTERS\/Kylie Cooper<\/p>\n

Moynihan was one of 1,500 previously convicted Capitol rioters whom Trump pardoned on his first day back in office, Jan. 20, 2025. Moynihan had been sentenced in February 2023 on a felony charge: obstruction of an official proceeding. He served 21 months in federal prison. <\/p>\n

During the attack on the Capitol, Moynihan was \u201camong rioters who broke through the security perimeter on the east side of the Capitol Building\u201d and invaded the chamber of the US Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile in the Senate Chamber, Moynihan paged through a notebook on top of a Senator\u2019s desk, taking out papers, and taking pictures with his cellphone,\u201d a 2023 news release<\/a> on his sentencing reads.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday statement, Jeffries expressed his gratitude to state and federal law enforcement for \u201ctheir swift and decisive action to apprehend a dangerous individual who made a credible death threat against me with every intention to carry it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe person arrested, along with thousands of violent felons who stormed the US Capitol during the January 6th attack, was pardoned by Donald Trump on the President\u2019s very first day in office,\u201d Jeffries said in the statement. \u201cSince the blanket pardon that occurred earlier this year, many of the criminals released have committed additional crimes throughout the country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least 10 pardoned Capitol rioters have been arrested and charged with various crimes since Trump took office in January, according to the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)<\/a>. Moynihan, however, is the first to be rearrested for threats against a member of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, our brave men and women in law enforcement are being forced to spend their time keeping our communities safe from these violent individuals who should never have been pardoned,\u201d Jeffries said in the statement.<\/p>\n

The Jan. 6, 2023, attack on the U.S. Capitol sought to disrupt the election certification process, confirming then-President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. For weeks leading up to the riot, Trump had peddled lies that the election had been stolen from him. Immediately prior to the riot, he addressed people gathered at a so-called \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally, where he told the crowd, \u201cWe fight like hell. And if you don\u2019t fight like hell, you\u2019re not going to have a country anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments later, the mob besieged the Capitol \u2014 injuring over 140 police officers in the process. Some of the rioters even called\u00a0for the murders of then-Vice President Mike Pence and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rioter involved in the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, who President Donald Trump pardoned earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8827,8828,8829,8830,8831,8832,8833,8834,8835,8836,9,24,8837,63,8838,8839,8840,8841],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-capitol-breach-prosecution","tag-christopher-moynihan","tag-congressional-security","tag-democratic-institutions-under-threat","tag-dutchess-county-court","tag-economic-club-of-new-york-speech","tag-election-certification-attack","tag-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force","tag-hakeem-jeffries-threat","tag-jan-6-capitol-riot","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-police-arrest","tag-nyc","tag-recidivism-after-pardons","tag-stop-the-steal-rally","tag-terroristic-threat-charge","tag-trump-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}