A Florida man who called himself “the antifa hunter” will spend more than three years in prison after being convicted of sending racist threats to other people online.
Daniel McMahon, a 32-year-old from Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for harassing and threatening people online. In April, McMahon pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and bias-motivated interference with a candidate for elected office.
McMahon admitted that he harassed and threatened a black politician, Don Gathers, in order to deter him from running for public office in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also admitted to threatening to rape the autistic daughter of an anti-white supremacy activist.
McMahon had made his threats under the phony name “Jack Corbin” and also referred to Corbin as “the antifa hunter.” Under the pseudonym, McMahon promoted white supremacy and “cultivated a culture of fear and chaos” among anti-racists online, according to one activist.
“There is seemingly nothing that Daniel McMahon will not do in the name of white supremacy,” said a North Carolina activist, who was harassed by McMahon.
Before McMahon was sentenced, Gathers told the judge he prays he can forgive McMahon for his harassment but that “today is not that day.”
“I despise all that you and others like you represent,” Gathers told McMahon.
The FBI found several folders on McMahon’s computer in which he had compiled information on activists he had “owned” online. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon gave McMahon the maximum sentence and said his conduct was “as egregious as it could be.”
