The Anchorage man who was arrested Wednesday for making over 465 threats against sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices has a record of donating to Democrats through ActBlue, which is a campaign donation-laundering site used by leftist candidates and causes.
His donations have been typically small and are not always specified to go to a particular candidate. But he designated $25 in November and $50 in March for Biden for President.
He also donated to Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola’s campaign through ActBlue, and through ActBlue to political action committees that donate to Peltola.
Panos Anastasiou has donated over $786 to and through ActBlue, with his most recent donation on July 25. At the Federal Election Commission, he lists his work as “unemployed.” The most recent donation was on July 25.
In 2020, he donated to Al Gross for U.S. Senate, the Democrat candidate challenging Sen. Dan Sullivan. He also donated to the “Progessive Turnout Project.”
Others he earmarked were for groups like “Stop Republicans” political action committee, and Americpac, a group that donates to Peltola’s campaign. He is a repeat donor to Democrats, although he is registered as a nonpartisan voter. Many of Alaska’s nonpartisan registrants vote for Democrats.
Anastasiou is accused by the Justice Department of sending some 465 messages through a court website, threatening to shoot, lynch, kidnap, and behead various justices of the Supreme Court, whose names were not revealed in the indictment. He was arrested Wednesday. His beef with the Supreme Court is over its decision to grant some level of immunity to former President Donald Trump, who is facing numerous law-fare court cases that appear political in nature.
“We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with,” Attorney General Merrick Garland, a former federal appeals court judge, said. “Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear. Our democracy depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without fearing for their lives or the safety of their families.”
Recently, the Alaska Democratic Party became upset when a Democrat, who is a felon serving time for making threats against officials, got onto the final four ballot for Alaska’s congressional seat. Eric Hafner, serving in a federal penitentiary, is the Democrats’ second choice after Rep. Mary Peltola and his history of threats against judges is not unlike those made by Peltola supporter Anastasiou.
