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Justice Department Indicts Alleged Swatters of Turley, Members of Congress, and Others
Jonathan Turley blog ^ | 11/23/24 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 11/24/2024 9:19:41 AM PST by CFW

Yesterday, I [Turley] was notified by the Justice Department confirming that a recent swatting indictment includes the person or persons responsible for my own swatting a year ago. One of the defendants, Thomasz Szabo, was arrested a couple weeks ago.

The indictment below charges two foreign nationals: Thomasz Szabo, 26, of Romania, and Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, of Serbia.

Szabo and Radovanovic are each charged with one count of conspiracy, 29 counts of threats and false information regarding explosives, and four counts of transmitting threats in interstate and foreign commerce.

Their alleged conspiracy began as early as December 2020. It continued through January 2024, using personal identifying information, including home addresses, to falsely report emergencies to provoke a police response at the victim’s home. According to the Justice Department, they used various monikers to communicate. Szabo used “Jonah,” “Jonah Goldberg,” “Plank,” “Rambler,” “War Lord,” “Shovel,” “Cypher,” “Kollectivist,” “Mortenberg Shekelstorms,” and “NotThuggin2”. Radovanovic used “XBD31,” “XDR,” “Angus,” “Thuggin,” “Thug Hunter,” “NotThuggin,” “DCL,” and “AOD.”

The indictment alleges that their crimes encompassed 40 private victims and 61 official victims, including members of Congress, cabinet-level executive branch officials, and senior federal law enforcement officials. It also included four businesses, four religious institutions, and one victim university.

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Jack Posobiec, conservative political commentator and editor of Human Events made a comment yesterday that the people who had swatted his parents had been indicted. I assume he was referring to this indictment.

Swatting is a leftist tactic and is often done by ANTIFA members, or foreigners trying to cause chaos. (I sometimes wonder how many of them are CIA cut-outs?)

MTG's home has been swatted numerous times. People have been killed due to swatting raids. Those arrested, once found guilty, need to be sentenced to life in prison and prevented from ever accessing a computer again. (I'd prefer a death sentence as a deterrent but I guess that's not likely to happen).

1 posted on 11/24/2024 9:19:41 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Just HOW do they find everyone’s HOME ADDRESSES??


2 posted on 11/24/2024 9:30:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CFW

What in the world do they hope to achieve with the swatting?

Are Szabo and Radovanovic in the USA?


3 posted on 11/24/2024 9:31:24 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
What in the world do they hope to achieve with the swatting?

These vile, perverted, libtard filth are hoping that someone within the house will mistake the police as home invaders or make some move that results in the intended target or their family members being killed or wounded. That is the level of psychotic perversion that emanates from what the limp-wristed, gutless Repukelicans continue to call "their friends across the aisle." They are demonic filth and domestic enemies, nothing less...

4 posted on 11/24/2024 9:40:33 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: CFW

Have they been connected to the FBI or CIA yet?


5 posted on 11/24/2024 9:44:00 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Thomasz Szabo, 26, of Romania, and Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, of Serbia... they used various monikers to communicate. Szabo used "Jonah," "Jonah Goldberg," ... "Mortenberg Shekelstorms"...

6 posted on 11/24/2024 9:45:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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the amount of people swatted and the who that was swatted. these people are never getting out of prison. over 100 counts


7 posted on 11/24/2024 9:48:08 AM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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Whatever the role politics may have played, or our current divisions, swatting constitutes a very serious crime that can result in lethal accidents and trauma for victims. It also pulls law enforcement resources away from real crimes. In my case, five or six officers were needlessly pulled from their other duties to respond to the call.

More important then sending paid unknown lowlife foreigners to prison for life is to find, expose and prosecute the liberal/US/progressive/DNC/commie filth paying these third world losers ... Politics DOES matter...eff George Soros and his demons...

8 posted on 11/24/2024 9:49:39 AM PST by GOPJ (No law says citizens who think they're GOD, have a right to force us to worship them- same w/trans.)
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Hmmm...

They make this announcement a couple of weeks after the election....


9 posted on 11/24/2024 9:52:40 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Ann Archy

Trust me it’s not that hard. Most people don’t realize that the property tax rolls are public info for example.


10 posted on 11/24/2024 9:54:17 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

Ditto voter rolls.


11 posted on 11/24/2024 10:00:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: CFW

Put a flash bang in their pants. Mornings.


12 posted on 11/24/2024 12:22:20 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What in the world do they hope to achieve with the swatting?

Are Szabo and Radovanovic in the USA?


I was wondering the same. Are the indictments and this announcement by the DOJ just a PR stunt to pretend they are “doing something”? If the two aren’t even in the U.S. then there is zero chance they will ever be punished or even stopped from swatting the future.

I find it interesting that all the victims seem to be Republicans (or have conservative political leanings). That’s why I think they may actually be CIA operatives or paid and encouraged in their activities by the left. If the purpose was to introduce turmoil in elections or political division, wouldn’t they be equal opportunity swatters?


13 posted on 11/24/2024 1:34:57 PM PST by CFW
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The article doesn't say where they are, but the investigative agencies involved suggest they are not in the USA. The number of law enforcement agencies is impressive:
The fact that this investigation stretched to Hungary and Romania showed the extraordinary effort needed to make these arrests. The arrests are the result of an investigation that involved a global effort, including the U.S. Secret Service Washington Field Office and Criminal Investigative Division, the FBI’s Washington Field Office and Minneapolis Field Office, the U.S. Capitol Police, the U.S. Secret Service’s Bucharest Resident Office, Miami Field Office, Syracuse Resident Office, Springfield Resident Office, the FBI’s Legat Office in Bucharest and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Western District of Washington, the District of South Dakota, the Middle District of Florida, the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of Illinois, and the Northern District of New York.
It's interesting to note that far-flung agencies all over the USA were investigating: Minnesota, Washington DC, New York, Springfield (Illinois? Missouri? Massachusetts?), Washington State, South Dakota, Florida, Illinois.

I wonder why the investigation extended to so many states.

14 posted on 11/24/2024 2:16:05 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I wonder why the investigation extended to so many states.”


Good question. I’d like to see the path they took to narrow the search down to these two. And their evidence for each step taken.


15 posted on 11/24/2024 3:00:24 PM PST by CFW
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The forensics would be interesting, wouldn’t they? I was surprised at the large number of enforcement agencies and locations. It must be a tough job trying to find the swatters who no doubt were doing everything they could to cover their tracks.


16 posted on 11/24/2024 4:47:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“The forensics would be interesting, wouldn’t they? I was surprised at the large number of enforcement agencies and locations. It must be a tough job trying to find the swatters who no doubt were doing everything they could to cover their tracks.”


Just think about it. They could use multiple agencies and track these people’s communications through several states and across the world, but they can’t find the Jan 6 “pipe-bomber”. That’s although he/she was under their noses in the most monitored city in the nation and they have him on video using his cell phone at the site.

They also can’t find most of the pro-abortion activists of “Jane’s Revenge” that firebombed pro-life counseling clinics.

“Premier” law enforcement agency my a—! Garland said it was because they acted after hours at night and in the dark.

That’s why I’m skeptical about this entire story. They’ve indicted people who I suspect can never be questioned or brought to trial but the feds now can say “case closed”.

No wonder trust in government law enforcement agencies is at about zero.


17 posted on 11/24/2024 5:02:19 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

My prediction, Turley will be the next Supreme Court member. Although a Democrat, at least he was, Turley has been a staunch defender of Trump during his many cases of lawfare.


18 posted on 11/24/2024 5:04:17 PM PST by mware
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To: CFW

And they DID find anybody who was near the capitol in DC within hour or days.


19 posted on 11/24/2024 5:20:08 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Republicans are the party that says ‘Government doesn’t work.’ Then they get elected and prove it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The peeps said their goal was to cause as much chaos in the US as they could. He targeted Biden too.


20 posted on 06/03/2025 8:37:51 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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