Juan Thompson

Man Accused Of Threatening Jewish Institutions To Vilify Ex

... 9. Thompson started making his own threats Jan. 28, and authorities are continuing to investigate the others, they said. University City, Missouri, police Lt. Fredrick Lemons told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that detectives will question Thompson about the 154 headstones toppled last month at a Jewish cemetery there. He declined to say whether Thompson was considered a suspect. Thompson’s first threat was to the Jewish History Museum in Manhattan, authorities said. He made up an email address to make it seem like the victim was sending threats in his name, and he sent messages to Jewish schools in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and Manhattan and to a JCC in Manhattan, authorities said. The Council on American-Islamic Relations also received an anonymous email saying the woman put a bomb in a Dallas Jewish center. Thompson, who’s black, then took to Twitter: “Know any good lawyers?” he wrote. “Need to stop this nasty/racist #whitegirl I dated who sent a bomb threat in my name.” He later tweeted to the FBI: “I’m been (sic) tormented by an ...

Juan Thompson 'threatened Jewish Centres To Frame Ex

... since January 1, labelling them an "epidemic". Law enforcement authorities are also investigating attacks on Jewish cemeteries in three cities which saw hundreds of gravestones tumbled and broken. The latest took place in Rochester, New York late on Wednesday. "Just because there's been an arrest today doesn't mean that threats have disappear or will stop," Evan Bernstein, New York regional director for the Anti-Defamation League - also a target of the bomb threats - told a press conference on Friday. "There are many more JCC bomb threats that have not been solved. and we hope all law enforcement will continue to be diligent.". Bomb threat. Thompson started making threats on January 28, a criminal complaint said.  It is unclear why Jewish organisations were targeted. The first threat was in an email to the Jewish History Museum in New York written from an account that made it appear as if it were being sent by an ex-girlfriend. "Juan Thompson put 2 bombs in the History Museum set to go off Sunday," it said. He followed that up with similar messages to a Jewish school in Farmington Hills, ...

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... Christian supporters are not anti-Semites. Here are two quotes on that. The Jewish Telegraph Agency. Trump is from New York, works in professions saturated with Jews and long has been a vocal supporter of Israel. His daughter and two grandchildren are Jewish, the executive vice president of his organization is Jewish — and Trump certainly has chutzpah.[ When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump , by Uriel Heilman, Jewish Telegraph Agency, August 8, 2015]. Lion of the Blogosphere. If Trump becomes president he will be the most culturally Jewish president in American history. His daughter is Jewish, and probably a plurality of his top employees are Jewish. …. Also, Trump once served as the grand marshal of the Salute to Israel Parade. Irony Of Trump And White Nationalists , December 14, 2015. That’s Trump. Barack Hussein Obama, on the other hand, supported and was supported by black Muslims, including Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. This is a typical Obama supporter crime. See if anyone calls it that. But what ties Jayson Blair, the black reporter who ...

Man Who 'made Bomb Threats Against Jewish Community Centers' Arrested

... two bombs in the office of the Jewish center today,' the email read. 'He wants to create Jewish newtown tomorrow.'. 'Newtown' is a reference to Newtown, Connecticut, the site of a December 2012 school shooting that left 26 people dead, among them 20 children. On or about February 21, Thompson allegedly emailed a threat to the New York offices of the Anti-Defamation League (seen above). Federal authorities also say that Thompson used his Twitter feed to allege that the woman in question made threats against him as well as President Donald Trump. Thompson claimed in the tweets that the woman was trying to frame him. 'Y'all know how to get a social worker in NY barred?' he tweeted on Monday. 'I'm being stalked and harassed by a white nasty white woman in NYC.'. He tweeted that he had been questioned by the FBI and the Secret Service who were investigating the matter. 'The Secret Service visited me looked at my tweets, questioned my politics b/c some awful white woman ...

Man Made Bomb Threats Against Jewish Groups To Frame Ex, Police Say

... Connecticut school shooting. BREAKING: Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested in St. Louis > > allegedly connected to at least eight #Bomb Threats against #JCCs & @ADL_National. — ADL (@ADL_National) March 3, 2017. Thompson, a former reporter who was fired from The Intercept last year for fabricating quotes, posted on Twitter last month that his ex-girlfriend was harassing him and making threats against Jewish groups in his name. Thompson posted on Twitter last month that his ex-girlfriend was harassing him and making threats against Jewish groups in his name. "She, though I can't prove it, even sent a bomb threat in my name to a Jewish center, which was odd, given her antisemitic statements," he wrote. "I got a visit from the FBI.". Thompson is also accused of sending defamatory emails and faxes to his ex-girlfriend’s ...

St. Louis Man Accused Of Making Threats Against Jewish Centers, Schools

... left early to go work at The Intercept, NPR's David Schaper reported. The Intercept said in a statement emailed to NPR that Thompson "was fired after we discovered that he fabricated sources and quotes in his articles" and called the news of Thompson's alleged threats "heinous.". After Thompson was fired in January 2016, the Intercept said he had carried out a " pattern of deception " during his time there and that he also had "created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people.". According to the criminal complaint, the woman, who was not named but who works at a New York-area social service organization, ended a romantic relationship with Thompson in July 2016. Just one day later, according to court documents, the woman's employer received an email claiming to be from a news organization that stated she "had been pulled over for drunk driving, and was currently being sued for spreading a sexually transmitted disease." FBI investigators say it was sent from an IP address linked to Thompson. This started an escalating pattern of abuse, the complaint said. Thompson's harassment appears "to have included, among other ...

Juan Thompson Has Not Been At Fbi-raided House In Months, Stepfather Says

... the FBI , along with several local and national agencies. Thompson is accused of making at least eight bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers. He is also accused of trying to pin the threats on an ex-lover, who the FBI said he harassed. FBI officials raided a north St. Louis home that is connected to Thompson. It is also home to Thompson's step-father, Tyrone Lampkin. Lampkin said his children were waiting for their school bus when the FBI forcibly came through the door. "The door was opened, (they) could have opened the door. No one was keeping (them) out," Tyrone Lampkin said. The man also said the residence is one that Thompson has not visited in months. News 4 learned the FBI took electronics from the home, that the step-father said only belonged to his children and grand-children. He said none of the items the FBI agents took belonged to Thompson. As they agents came down the steps with items from the home, Thompson's step-father said the allegations against his step-son were shocking, but did not know much outside of what he was told by the FBI. "I don't know (anything) right now," Lampkin said. Copyright 2017 KMOV (Meredith ...

St. Louis Man Arrested For Making Threats Against Jewish Community Centers

... note to readers. He had worked there from November 2014 until January 2016. In one story, Thompson quoted a man he identified as the cousin of Dylann Roof, the man convicted of killing nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Intercept editors retracted that story after members of Roof’s family said they did not know of that cousin. Thompson accused The Intercept of firing him for being black, something the site said was not true. This is a press release from the US Attorney’s office. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing of a complaint charging JUAN THOMPSON with cyberstalking a particular woman (“Victim-1”), by, among other things, communicating threats to Jewish Community Centers (“JCCs”) in Victim-1’s name. THOMPSON was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, this morning and is expected to be ...

Bernie Sanders, Other Top Democrats Refuse To Condemn Supporter Fbi Alleges Made Anti-semitic Threats Nationwide

... a link to the Tweet. I voted for Bernie Sanders, but his supporters are annoying as fuck. "I almost cried when I got a Bernie sign". Yuck. #Dems In Philly. — Juan M. Thompson (@Juan MThompson) July 26, 2016. “Do you have a link?” Miller Lewis wrote back to Breitbart News’s request for comment. Breitbart News sent him a link to Thompson’s Tweet and gave Sanders all day to respond. Breitbart News followed up with Miller Lewis at 1:35 p.m., 3:59 p.m., 5:49 p.m., and 5:52 p.m. asking whether Sanders will condemn the alleged anti-Semitic actions by Thompson. He has not responded to any of those inquiries. A quick scan of Sanders’ Twitter accounts—both his campaign account and his official Senate account —shows no mention of his supporter Thompson or any condemnation of the threats. There is no statement on Sanders’ campaign website  and no statement or mention of the matter on his U. S. Senate website either. Sanders is hardly the only Democrat who has gone silent on the matter. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer’s spokesman Matt House has not responded to any request for comment, and it is unclear if Schumer has made any public statements. His official Twitter ...

University City Police Still Searching For Clues To Jewish Cemetery Vandalism

... February 26, 2017. He was referring to the copycat Jewish cemetery vandalism case that followed the one in University City. One of the bomb threats he’s accused of making at Jewish centers came the same day as the vandalism in University City. He’s accused making two anti-Semitic threats the next day. When there’s a guy from St. Louis accused of these crimes around the same time as the discovery of 154 overturned headstones at the historic Chessed Shel Emeth Jewish Cemetery in University City, police have to check it out. Detectives said they’re also reviewing more than 100 hours of surveillance video from buildings surrounding the cemetery. “Detectives are reviewing the video frame-by-frame,” said University City Police Captain Frederick Lemons. “Since there are multiple angles with multiple businesses, this is something meticulous that we have to go through. We’re looking at all aspects. We’ve reached out to the FBI to interview Juan Thompson, so we’re trying to work that out with them at this time. We don’t have any physical evidence linking him to this particular ...

Former Journalist Arrested Over Threats To U.s. Jewish Institutions

... was used for the emails, but he told police his computer had been hacked, the complaint said. The ADL said Thompson had been on its radar since he fabricated the story about Roof. According to ADL research, Thompson also claimed he wanted to dismantle the system of “racial supremacy and greedy capitalism that is stacked against us.” He said he was going to run for mayor of St. Louis to “fight back against Trumpian fascism and socio-economic terrorism.”. FBI Director James Comey met with Jewish community leaders Friday to discuss the recent threats, the agency said. University City, Mo., police Lt. Fredrick Lemons told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that detectives will question Thompson about the 154 headstones toppled last month at a Jewish cemetery there. Associated Press writers Jim Salter in St. Louis, Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles and Jake Pearson and Verena Dobnik in New York contributed to this report. As ...