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Disgraced former journalist, Juan Thompson, nabbed by FBI for bomb threats against eight Jewish Community Centers – to ‘set up lover who dumped him’ after subjecting her to a vile Twitter hate campaign

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6 id&equals;"ra-headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>FBI say disgraced journalist&comma; familiar with &&num;8216&semi;fabricating&&num;8217&semi; stories&comma; is behind anti-Semitic bomb threats in revenge plot to frame ex-girlfriend<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Juan Thompson aimed to &&num;8216&semi;set up lover who dumped him&&num;8217&semi; after subjecting her to a vile Twitter hate campaign <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Thompson allegedly made threats in the name of a woman from whom he split<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Prosecutors say he threatened at least eight Jewish community centers&comma; targeting approximately 100 Jewish centers in recent weeks <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Thompson&comma; 31&comma; of St&period; Louis&comma; Mo was arrested by the FBI on Thursday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>The former journalist was fired from The Intercept for fabricating quotes and sources particularly in the Charleston church shooting by Dylan Roof <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Charged in New York with cyberstalking his ex by &OpenCurlyQuote;communicating threats to JCCs in the woman’s name’<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0d0101&semi;"><strong>Faces up to five years in federal prison <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"author-section byline-plain"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-149578" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;juan-thompson-5&period;png" alt&equals;"Juan Thompson 5&period;png" width&equals;"592" height&equals;"545" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Juan Thompson has been charged by the feds with cyberstalking<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Federal authorities have arrested a former journalist from St&period; Louis&comma; Missouri  for making a number of threats against Jewish institutions as part of a vicious internet campaign &OpenCurlyQuote;to harass and intimidate&comma;’ against a former lover&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Juan Thompson&comma; 31&comma; was arrested by the FBI in St&period; Louis on Thursday&comma; on charges of making bomb threats against at least eight Jewish community centers&comma; the <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;justice&period;gov&sol;usao-sdny&sol;pr&sol;cyberstalking-charge-brought-manhattan-federal-court-against-missouri-man-pattern" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow">US Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office<&sol;a> said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thompson is a former reporter at The Intercept who was fired from his job it was learned he had fabricated quotes and invented sources&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thompson worked for the news website which focuses on national security&comma; between November 2014-January 2016&period; They issued a statement distancing itself from the dismissed ex-employee&comma; who was fired after claiming that he interviewed a nonexistent cousin of Charleston&comma; S&period;C&period;&comma; church massacre shooter Dylan Roof&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The news site acknowledged last year that Thompson used fake email accounts to impersonate others&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was also found to have attributed quotes to individuals in news stories even though those people later said they were never interviewed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thompson was charged in New York with cyberstalking a woman by &OpenCurlyQuote;communicating threats to JCCs in the woman’s name&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;If convicted&comma; he faces up to five years in federal prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-149581" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;juan-thompson6&period;png" alt&equals;"Juan Thompson6&period;png" width&equals;"651" height&equals;"439" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>FBI said Thompson&comma; a disgraced former reporter from St&period; Louis is behind a number of threats made against Jewish institutions<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Prosecutors said Thompson &OpenCurlyQuote;appears to have made at least eight of the JCC threats as part of a sustained campaign to harass and intimidate’ the woman after they ended their relationship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">An estimated 100 Jewish community centers &lbrack;JCCs&rsqb; have been threatened in recent weeks&comma; Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized and headstones knocked over&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Monday&comma; 21 bomb threats were phoned in to 13 Jewish Centers and eight Jewish schools in Alabama&comma; Delaware&comma; Florida&comma; Indiana&comma; Maryland&comma; Michigan&comma; New Jersey&comma; New York&comma; North Carolina&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; Rhode Island and Virginia&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thompson is also alleged to have sent &&num;8216&semi;defamatory emails and faxes&&num;8217&semi; to the woman&&num;8217&semi;s employer as well as &&num;8216&semi;false reports of criminal activity&&num;8217&semi; by the woman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-149401" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;the-tweet-above-was-cited-by-the-federal-government-in-its-complaint-against-thompson-here-he-tweeted-that-the-woman-in-question-was-a-filthy-anti-semite&period;jpg" alt&equals;"the-tweet-above-was-cited-by-the-federal-government-in-its-complaint-against-thompson-here-he-tweeted-that-the-woman-in-question-was-a-filthy-anti-semite" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"105" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>In the gallery of defamatory tweets is this one that accuses the woman of being  &&num;8216&semi;a filthy anti-Semite&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-149390" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;thompson-is-also-alleged-to-have-sent-defamatory-emails-and-faxes-to-the-womans-employer-as-well-as-false-reports-of-criminal-activity-by-the-woman-he-also-used-his-twitter-to-feed&period;jpg" alt&equals;"thompson-is-also-alleged-to-have-sent-defamatory-emails-and-faxes-to-the-womans-employer-as-well-as-false-reports-of-criminal-activity-by-the-woman-he-also-used-his-twitter-to-feed-to-allege-th" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"666" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The cyberstalker also sent &&num;8216&semi;defamatory emails and faxes&&num;8217&semi; to the woman&&num;8217&semi;s employer as well as &&num;8216&semi;false reports of criminal activity&&num;8217&semi; by the woman&period; He launched a social media campaign creating the impression that his target was the person stalking him and trying to frame him<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;people-are-evacuated-from-the-david-posnack-jewish-community-center-in-davie-florida-on-february-27-after-a-bomb-threat-thompson-allegedly-made-threats-against-eight-jewish-institutio&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;453" alt&equals;"People are evacuated from the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie&comma; Florida&comma; on February 27 after a bomb threat&period; Thompson allegedly made threats against eight Jewish institutions in the name of a former lover&period;jpg" width&equals;"745" height&equals;"480" &sol;>Fake bomb threat call ins&colon; People are evacuated from the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie&comma; Florida&comma;Feb 27<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-149380" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;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&period;jpg" alt&equals;"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&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"923" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The escalating defamation campaign alleges the victim not only made threats against Thompson&comma; but President Donald Trump as well<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Federal authorities allege that Thompson posted the false claim that his ex-lover possessed child pornography back in October&period; However&comma; questioned about the claim in November&comma; he told investigators that his account was hacked&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The government alleges that Thompson began to make threats against Jewish institutions back in January&period; By February 21&comma; he progressed to emailing a threat to the New York offices of the Anti-Defamation League&comma; authorities said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;&lbrack;The woman&rsqb; is behind the bomb threats against jews&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the email read&period; &&num;8216&semi;She lives in nyc and is making more bomb threats tomorrow&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The next day&comma; the ADL received a phone call stating that explosive materials had been placed in its midtown Manhattan office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"share-pictures-6" class&equals;"share-pictures-overlay"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-149393" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;a-st-louis-police-car-is-seen-outside-of-thompsons-home-in-st-louis-on-friday&period;jpg" alt&equals;"A St&period; Louis Police car is seen outside of Thompson's home in St&period; Louis on Friday&period;jpg" width&equals;"663" height&equals;"348" &sol;><strong>Police activity outside Juan Thompson&&num;8217&semi;s home in St Louis&comma; Friday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The federal government also alleges that on or around February 7&comma; a JCC in Manhattan received an emailed bomb threat from an anonymous account&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Juan Thompson put two bombs in the office of the Jewish center today&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the email read&period; &&num;8216&semi;He wants to create Jewish newtown tomorrow&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Newtown&&num;8217&semi; is a reference to Newtown&comma; Connecticut&comma; the site of a December 2012 school shooting that left 26 people dead&comma; among them 20 children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-149395" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;on-or-about-february-21-thompson-allegedly-emailed-a-threat-to-the-new-york-offices-of-the-anti-defamation-league-seen-above&period;jpg" alt&equals;"on-or-about-february-21-thompson-allegedly-emailed-a-threat-to-the-new-york-offices-of-the-anti-defamation-league-seen-above" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"407" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>On or about February 21&comma; Thompson allegedly emailed a threat to the New York offices of the Anti-Defamation League &lbrack;above&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">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&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Thompson claimed in the tweets that the woman was trying to frame him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Y&&num;8217&semi;all know how to get a social worker in NY barred&quest;&&num;8217&semi; he tweeted on Monday&period; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m being stalked and harassed by a white nasty white woman in NYC&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He tweeted that he had been questioned by the FBI and the Secret Service who were investigating the matter&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The Secret Service visited me looked at my tweets&comma; questioned my politics b&sol;c some awful white woman I date reported me&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Thompson tweeted the same day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;I won&&num;8217&semi;t be silenced&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"share-pictures-8" class&equals;"share-pictures-overlay"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-149398" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;the-adl-tweeted-on-friday-that-the-suspect-behind-the-threat-had-been-arrested&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The ADL tweeted on Friday that the suspect behind the threat had been arrested&period;jpg" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"360" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The ADL tweeted on Friday that the suspect behind the threat had been arrested<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">In a pinned tweet on his account&comma; he wrote a rambling note filled with accusations against the woman and &&num;8216&semi;the racist FBI&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;Two years ago&comma; after swearing off white women&comma; I started dating one&comma;’ he tweeted&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;She seemed like a cool Brooklyn white radical&period; There were &lbrack;sic&rsqb; warning signs though&semi; she didn’t tell me she had herpes until AFTER we hooked up&semi; she called me a thug&comma; in an approving way&comma; because she liked I was wearing Js and balling shorts after the gym&semi; and she called herself captain save-a-thug – a reference to the type of black men she dated&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;We broke up after someone showed me the light&comma; and since then she’s stalked and harassed me&comma;’ he wrote&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;&lbrack;She&rsqb; threatened to have me killed&comma; and said she was going to make me a prison &OpenCurlyQuote;statistic’ and looked forward to me being &OpenCurlyQuote;raped’ in prison&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;&lbrack;The woman&rsqb; is a clinical &lbrack;sic&rsqb; director at a prominent NYC non-profit&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;She&comma; though I can’t prove it&comma; even sent a bomb threat in my name to a Jewish center&comma; which was odd given her anti-Semitic statements&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I got a visit from the FBI&period; So now I’m battling the racist FBI and this vile&comma; evil&comma; racist white woman&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;I’m afraid…we know what happens when white women use the law to go after black men&period;’<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Sunday&comma; Thompson re-tweeted a number of news stories about the bomb threats against the JCC as well as other historical articles and references to anti-Semitism and the Nazis&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The hatred of Jews goes across all demos&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he tweeted in a post that was referenced in the US Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office complaint&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Ask NYC’s &lbrack;employer of the woman in question&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he tweeted&period; &&num;8216&semi;They employ a filthy anti-Semite&period; These ppl are evil&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Thompson’s alleged pattern of harassment not only involved the defamation of his female victim&comma; but his threats intimidated an entire community&comma;&&num;8217&semi; FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;The FBI and our partners take these crimes seriously&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"mol-dd9609b0-002f-11e7-857d-93aae365ca8a" class&equals;"art-ins mol-factbox news">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ins cleared mol-factbox-body">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;dylann-roof6&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;680" alt&equals;"Dylann Roof6&period;jpg" &sol;><strong>Thompson allegedly cooked up the details of his Dylan Roof story&period;  Roof &lbrack;above&rsqb;&comma;is the white gunman  in the Charleston&comma; South Carolina&comma;church shooting of June 2015<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">Thompson it is alleged&comma; has a a pattern of fabricating stories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">On February 2&comma; 2016&comma; the editor-in-chief of <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;theintercept&period;com&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;02&sol;a-note-to-readers&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow">The Intercept<&sol;a>&comma; Betsy Reed&comma; published a note explaining that Juan Thompson&comma; who worked as a reporter for the news site&comma; had fabricated quotes and invented news sources during his two-year stint&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Betsy Reed&comma; notes&colon; &&num;8216&semi;In his reporting Thompson also used quotes that we cannot verify from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Reed wrote&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors&comma; creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reed wrote that Thompson had created fake email accounts that he then used to impersonate people&comma; including Reed herself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Intercept conducted an investigation which found that on three occasions&comma; people were quoted even though they had never actually been interviewed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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