Staten Island Man Threatened To Kill Over 2020 Election: Feds

NEW YORK CITY — A digital trail of death threats levied against protesters, Sen. Chuck Schumer, people celebrating President-elect Joe Biden's victory and others led authorities to a Staten Island sex offender's door step.

Brian Maiorana, 54, was arrested Tuesday by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force at his home. An unsealed complaint details accusations that Maiorana levied a barrage of extremist posts starting in September 2020 and culminated with threats of retaliation over the results of the 2020 Election.

Maiorana also purchased parts for a semi-automatic handgun and other weapons that he, as a registered sex offender, could not legally possess, the complaint states.

“All right thinking people need to hit the streets while these scumbags are celebrating and start blowing them away,” he wrote on Nov. 8, the day after outlets projected Biden's victory over President Donald Trump, according to the complaint.

The federal criminal case arose in the aftermath of a tumultuous presidential election in which Trump has refused to concede and falsely claimed has been marred by voter fraud.

The complaint details months of hateful, right-wing and extremist online messages authorities said Maiorana posted.

“Its come to the point where pipe bombs need to be thrown into these mobs of potentially non violent violent protesters," he posted on Oct. 19, in a message the complaint reprinted with its original typos.

One of Maiorana's posts referenced a hateful novel called "The Turner Diaries" from which Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh drew inspiration. The book "depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the federal government, a nuclear war, and, ultimately, a race war which leads to the systematic extermination of non-whites," according to the complaint.

Maiorana intertwined Turner Diaries-inspired rhetoric with a hate-filled reference to Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish, the complaint states.

“As the Jew Senator from Jew York said nothing is off the table," Maiorana posted on Nov. 8, according to the complaint. "The Turner Diaries must come to life. We blow up the FBI building for real. All the alphabet agencies assassination will become the new normal now...that the electoral process is finished."

Federal prosecutors charged Maiorana with threatening to kill and ordering others to kill protesters, politicians and law enforcement.

Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme said in a statement that authorities will not stand idly by while people make threats over the election's results.

"Americans have a constitutional right to voice their opinions, but this Office will not tolerate violence or threats of violence used to intimidate others with whom they disagree,” DuCharme said.