Federal government wants suspected Nazis to stay behind bars for role in Capitol Riot

Federal government wants Army Reservist and New Jersey Naval Weapons Base Security contractor Earle to stay behind bars for his role in the Capitol Riot because of his history as a Nazi sympathizer, including parading wearing a “Hitler” mustache, and his support for civil war, according to court documents.

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli had a “secret” security clearance for his work at Navy Base Colts Neck, but he made his political leanings known to his colleagues.

Court documents indicate that Hale-Cusanelli frequently made anti-Semitic and anti-minority jokes and comments to his colleagues. A junior naval officer told investigators from the Navy’s Criminal Investigation Service that he constantly spoke about the Jewish people and remembered them saying, “Hitler should have finished the job.”

Another naval colleague recalled Hale-Cusanelli saying that “Jews, women and blacks were at the foot of the totem pole.” And a labor supervisor said Hale-Cusanelli received a reprimand for wearing a “Hitler mustache” at work, according to court documents filed Friday.

Investigators found several photos of Hale-Cusanelli sporting the distinctive stache on her phone, which they submitted to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday.

“The accused’s affinities for Hitler and the Nazi Party, however, went far beyond facial hair,” the court papers say, providing several other photos of his phone illustrating hostility towards Jews. One image is a cartoon depicting the Nazi Party as the savior of White Americans in the Republic (sic) and Democratic parties, ”court documents said. Other images showed animosity towards blacks, including George Floyd, whose murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked global protests last summer.

The government admitted in the file that Hale-Cusanelli’s political leanings were not enough to keep him in detention. However, according to court documents, the statements he made to investigators “make it clear that his ideology is the driving force behind his declared desire for civil war.” Since the defendant’s desire to start a civil war makes him a danger to the community, this Court can and must view the defendant’s ideology in the context of its dangerousness.

Authorities have also accused Hale-Cusanelli – who faces a slew of charges stemming from her role in the Jan.6 attack on the nation’s Capitol, though none included violent acts – of having attempted to destroy the evidence in the case. He is accused of deleting his Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, which he all used to share photos and videos of the insurgency, before being arrested.

He also deleted videos posted on his “Based Hermes Show” on YouTube, hid the suit and tie he wore during the raid, and told NCIS investigators he planned to destroy other evidence in order to not to be stopped with. deposit said.

Hale-Cusanelli also submitted a letter of support from a colleague, claiming that he had been “slandered in the press” as a “white supremacist” but that the colleague had never heard any jokes or comments. unpleasant. But the same colleague, Sgt. John Getz, told the opposite story when speaking with NCIS investigators, court documents show. Getz did not attempt to reconcile the opposing representations.

Hale-Cusanelli was arrested on January 15. NCIS investigators interviewed 44 colleagues on January 20 and 21, and 34 agreed that Hale-Cusanelli had openly expressed pro-Nazi views.