A Texas man has been arrested for leaving multiple expletive-laden threats via voicemail and email to kill New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani , authorities said Thursday.
Jeremy Fistel, 43, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Supreme Court on charges of threatening Mamdani in three expletive-laden calls in June and July and via an email sent through Mamdani’s campaign portal.
“The defendant threatened an elected official by leaving a series of increasingly alarming anti-Muslim messages,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said. “We take threats of violence against any office holder extremely seriously. There is no room for hate or bigotry in our political discourse.”
The first call was made on June 11, when Fistel allegedly said, “Hey Zohran. You should go back to f—ing Ug