The federal government wants an Army reservist and a security contractor at the New Jersey Naval Weapons Station, Earle, to be kept behind bars for their role in the Capitol riot because of its history as Nazi sympathizer, including the parade with the mustache “Hitler” and his support for civil war, according to court documents.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli had a “secret” security permit for his work at the Colts Neck Navy base, but made his political leanings known to co-workers.
Judicial papers say Hale-Cusanelli frequently made anti-Semitic and anti-minority jokes and comments to colleagues. A naval non-commissioned officer told Naval Criminal Investigation Service investigators that he was constantly talking about Jewish people and remembered him saying, “Hitler should have finished the job.”
Another Navy colleague recalled Hale-Cusanelli stating that “Jews, women and blacks were at the bottom of the totem pole.” And a labor supervisor said Hale-Cusanelli made a warning to wear a “Hitler mustache” to work, according to court documents filed Friday.
Investigators found several photos of Hale-Cusanelli with the stache badge on his phone, which he filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“However, the affinity of the accused by Hitler and the Nazi party went far beyond facial hair,” the court papers say, providing several other photos from his phone showing hostility towards Jews. An image is a caricature that represents the Nazi party as the savior of the white Americans of the Republic (sic) and of the democratic parties “, said the judicial papers. Other images show animosity towards blacks, including George Floyd, the murder of Minneapolis police sparked protests around the world last summer.
The government acknowledged in the presentation that Hale-Cusanelli’s political inclinations are not enough to keep him in custody. However, as the courts reported, the statements he made to investigators “make it clear that his ideology is the engine of his declared desire for a civil war. Since the defendant’s desire for a civil war it makes him a danger to the community, this court can and must consider the ideology of the accused in the context of his danger ”.
The feds also accused Hale-Cusanelli, who faces a number of charges arising from his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the nation’s Capitol, though none of them included violent acts, of attempting destroy evidence in the case. He is accused of deleting his Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, all of which he used to share photos and videos of the insurgency, before he was arrested.
He also deleted videos posted on his “Hermes-Based Show” on YouTube, hid the suit and tie he was wearing during the raid, and told NCIS investigators he planned to destroy other evidence so they wouldn’t arrest him on Friday. said file.
Hale-Cusanelli also presented a letter of support from a colleague, claiming that he had been “defamed in the press” for being called a “white supremacist,” but that his colleague had never heard jokes or nasty language. But the same comrade, the sergeant. John Getz, told the opposite story when he spoke with NCIS investigators, court papers reported. Getz made no attempt to reconcile opposing representations.
Hale-Cusanelli was arrested Jan. 15. NCIS investigators interviewed 44 colleagues on Jan. 20 and 21, and 34 agreed that Hale-Cusanelli had openly expressed pro-Nazi views.