Job enhancer for MSNBC. Update to this previous story.
Via NY Post:
Accused anti-Semitic bomb hoaxer Juan Thompson has a long history of ridiculous lies and frightening threats — everything from once boasting he got a Malcolm X tattoo to vowing to smear his rivals as “racists” and ruin their careers, according to people who count themselves as his victims.
“He told me I wouldn’t get a job once he was done with me,” former friend and Vassar College classmate Ian D’Emilia told The Post.
Thompson, a 31-year-old disgraced journalist, remained jailed on federal cyber-stalking charges Saturday for allegedly calling in eight bomb threats to Jewish organizations.
D’Emilia, who was Thompson’s roommate in 2013, earned Thompson’s ire last year after Thompson was fired from the Intercept news Web site for making up quotes and sources.
When reporter Doyle Murphy of Riverfronttimes.com — based in Thompson’s native St. Louis — called him earlier this year for comment, D’Emilia told her that Thompson had always been a bit weird.
Incensed by the story, Thompson allegedly embarked on a reign of cyber-terror against both D’Emilia and Murphy.
Thompson texted D’Emilia, and “He said that he’d tell my future employers that I’m a racist and homophobe,” D’Emilia said.Soon, both his boss and graduate advisor received e-mails similarly smearing him, D’Emilia said.