Clinton, New York– A New York man is accused of making death threats House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries He pleaded guilty Thursday, a year after President Donald Trump Pardoned for storming the US Capitol On January 6, 2021.
Christopher B. Moynihan, 35, also agreed to remain on probation for three years. During a hearing in City Court in Clinton, New York, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of harassment, and sentencing was set for April 2.
Moynihan’s public defender did not immediately return an email seeking comment Thursday night. A message was also left at an email address in Moynihan’s public records. Moynihan’s phone number in public records was not in service.
Moynihan, of Pleasant Valley, New York, was accused of sending a text message to another person in October about Jeffries’ appearance in New York City that week.
“I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” Moynihan wrote, according to a report by a state police investigator. Moynihan also wrote that “Jeffries needs to be eliminated” and sent a text message saying, “I will kill him in the future,” the police report states.
Moynihan was initially charged with a felony, terroristic threatening, but pleaded not guilty to a lesser offense.
“Threats against elected officials are not political speech, they are criminal acts that strike at the core of public safety and our democratic system,” Dutchess County District Attorney Anthony Parisi said in a statement.
Moynihan was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for joining January 6, 2021 mob attack on the Capitol. In January 2025, he was among hundreds of convicted Capitol rioters pardoned on the Republican president’s first day back in the White House.
A spokesman for Jefferies, a Democrat from New York, did not immediately return an email Thursday night.