{"id":1616038,"date":"2022-08-19T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616038"},"modified":"2022-08-19T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:06:19","slug":"biden-doj-refuses-to-prosecute-man-who-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-fox-news-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-doj-refuses-to-prosecute-man-who-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-fox-news-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden DOJ Refuses to Prosecute Man Who Repeatedly Threatened to Kill Fox News Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-doj-refuses-to-prosecute-man-who-repeatedly-threatened-to-kill-fox-news-hosts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>A New York City man has been let off twice by federal prosecutors after he threatened numerous Fox News hosts, despite breaking an agreement drafted after his first encounter with prosecutors.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In 2021, Jeffrey Rodriguez of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-york-to-pay-to-house-illegal-migrants-in-luxury-times-square-hotel\">New York City<\/a> was arrested and charged with cyberstalking and threatening interstate communications after sending hundreds of vile messages to numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seth-meyers-consistently-targets-fox-news-but-gets-pummeled-in-ratings-fncs-greg-gutfeld\">Fox News<\/a> hosts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>He was given a pass under the condition that he adhered to a number of guidelines, however after breaking them, his prosecution was deferred yet again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/18\/nyc-man-accused-of-threatening-fox-news-anchors-avoids-prosecution-twice\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\">According<\/a> to the <em>New York Post<\/em>, when Rodriguez appeared in court the first time in May, Manhattan federal prosecutors wrote a deferred prosecution, but made him promise to follow a list of conditions for the next year, including a ban on social media posts about anyone at Fox News, and mandatory mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Rodriguez went on to violate the conditions, tagging one of his alleged victims in a post on Instagram. He argued that he had stopped taking his medication at the time, but had since gotten back on it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses sought to commence with prosecution, however she was overruled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-biden-us-attorney-defends-boston-childrens-hospital-after-minor-trans-surgery-controversy\">US Attorney<\/a>&#8216;s Office, who decided to let Rodriguez&#8217;s actions slide yet again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019ve been lucky thus far,&#8221; Moses told Rodriguez, adding that he &#8220;will not get another chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>After learning from Rodriguez&#8217;s attorney that his behavior may have been influenced by a drinking problem, Moses ordered that he be subjected to random breathalyzer tests.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>As the <em>Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/18\/nyc-man-accused-of-threatening-fox-news-anchors-avoids-prosecution-twice\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\">reports<\/a>, prior to sending threats to two unnamed Fox News hosts, Rodriguez was charged for stalking and harassing another, also unnamed.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The complaint against him states that &#8220;the rate of his posts, comments, and direct messages directed toward Broadcasters \u2013 2 and \u2013 3, as well as the severity of his threats, increased drastically&#8221; in the months following his initial arrest.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Rodriguez repeatedly threatened the hosts, whom he referred to as &#8220;Nazis,&#8221; saying he wanted to &#8220;skin [them] ALIVE.&#8221; He told one he would &#8220;split [their] top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>From March 2020 to December 2021, Rodriguez allegedly sent hundreds of menacing messages and posts to the broadcasters, and allegedly threatened two of their families and exposed information about where they live.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City man has been let off twice by federal prosecutors after he threatened numerous Fox News hosts, despite breaking an agreement drafted after his first encounter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}