For nearly two decades, Anthony Salvatore Perri, a repeat offender with serious offenses on his record, has undertaken an obsessive mission against a justice system he despised.
A serial litigant, Mr. Perri has filed nearly a dozen frivolous lawsuits since 2006 against people and institutions that include the New York police commissioner, an entire federal court and the president. He has represented himself in each case.
Nearly all the suits were summarily dismissed. But Mr. Perri’s resentments erupted early last month, when he threatened to kill two federal judges in Brooklyn who had presided over most of his civil cases in violent, graphic voice messages, according to federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York.
“Every judge in your district who allows you to sit is a target,” Mr. Perri said to one judge, using an expletive. “Every judge, Eastern District,” he said, again using an expletive. Mr. Perri also said that he wished that the judge, who was a woman, would be sexually assaulted, according to prosecutors.
Mr. Perri’s threats are just part of a wave: Federal judges have reported a dramatic spike in threats as President Trump continues his attacks on the judiciary and the justice system. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, said Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee that there were 35 open investigations into threats against judges.
Pizzas have also been sent anonymously to the homes of federal jurists, as well as to relatives of Amy Coney Barrett, a Supreme Court justice — a move aimed at signaling that people know where they live.
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