New Yorker admits he threatened Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green over the phone

This week, federal prosecutors announced that a man from New York pleaded guilty to threatening phone calls to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green’s office in Washington.

Joseph F. Morelli, 51, of Endicott, admitted on Wednesday that he left a series of disturbing voicemail messages in March last year.

“I’ll have to take your life into my own hands… I’ll hurt you.” Physically, I will harm you,” Morelli said in a threatening message he left on March 3, 2022, according to prosecutors.

A second voicemail message left by Morelli the same day read, in part: “I have to show you to your face what violence really is, and I don’t think you’re going to like it.” … I can pay someone 500 bucks to take a baseball bat and crush your skull … You will get fucking physical pain.

“You will hurt people, so I will have to hurt you physically… I will make sure that even if I am jailed, someone will catch you, because I will pay them too,” says the third voice message left by Morelli.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the US Capitol Police.

Morelli will be sentenced on June 1 and faces up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000 and up to three years on parole.

Green told The Post on Friday that Morelli is “at home” awaiting sentencing and that this is a sign of the “two-tier justice system” that several Republicans have recently opposed.

“The man pleaded guilty to planning to kill me or paying someone to do it. Now he is at home, he can do it while waiting for the verdict. But the guy who sat at the Pelosi table is facing 20 years, and the people who entered the Capitol on J6 are rotting in jail until trial,” Greene said in a statement.

She went on to say that the media showed little interest in threats to her life compared to the coverage received by threats against liberal lawmakers.

“The press keeps asking me about threats against a member of the House of Representatives. [Ilhan] Omar, but none of them knew about this guilty plea for threatening my life. Several people who wanted to kill me were arrested, but the DC media does not report this, ”Green told The Post.

“It’s two-tier justice and two-tier lighting,” she added.

In December, US Capitol Police Chief Thomas Munger said the Senate Rules Committee that there were more than 9,000 threats against members of Congress in 2022.

In a tweet last year, Green stated that she had been the victim of several episodes of “slapping.”

Greene tweeted that on August 26, 2022, police were called to her home in Georgia after someone pranked officials and said there was an emergency.

“I got spanked for the sixth time last night,” Green tweeted, adding, “Spanking is a very serious crime. The caller wants his victim to be killed by the police. But it is also a gigantic misuse of police resources and time, which is another reason why this is a serious crime. God bless my local police.”

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