Trump supporter charged with harassment after threatening phone calls to congresswoman

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

2021/4/12 18:43 (EDT)4/12 18:58 (EDT)updated
©The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — A Delaware County man made threatening and lewd phone calls to Democratic U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania after she spoke out against the January attack at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said Monday.

Stephen Cilurso, 68, has been charged with two counts of harassment for making 19 calls to Dean’s office in February, according to court records. He was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. There was no indication he had hired an attorney.

Cilurso, of Aldan, admitted to detectives he made the calls, saying that when he “gets into drinking he has a dirty mouth.” He told them he grew angry as he watched new reports about the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, who he had supported in the 2020 election, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.

At the time the calls were made, Dean was serving as one of the House’s nine impeachment managers, effectively prosecutors pressing the case in a Senate trial that Trump tried to overturn the election by inciting an insurrection against Congress. The House impeached Trump after the deadly Capitol attack, making him the only president ever impeached twice. But he was against acquitted by the Senate.

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Stephen Cilurso

DA: Man harassed US Rep. Dean with series of voicemails
Messages were vulgar, obscene, and sexually explicit, DA says
69 News Apr 12, 2021 Updated 11 hrs ago

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A southeastern Pennsylvania man is in trouble with the law for allegedly harassing a member of Congress who represents parts of Berks and Montgomery counties.

Stephen M. Cilurso, 68, of Aldan, Delaware County, was arraigned Monday on a misdemeanor charge of harassment - lewd communication and a summary offense of harassment - repeatedly commits acts.

Cilurso left 16 harassing voicemail messages at Dean's district office in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, between Feb. 10 and Feb. 18, 2021, according to Kevin Steele, the county's district attorney.

Authorities said Cilurso's messages contained vulgar, obscene, and sexually explicit language directed at Dean, and several of them referenced the Proud Boys organization and Dean's testimony during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.

More:
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/da-man-harassed-us-rep-dean-with-series-of-voicemails/article_1b01e5e0-9bbc-11eb-8c44-0755f7ee5f3d.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. He doesn't look like he's been an active participant in very much lately

Guess he gets his jollies with vicarious abuse of prominent older women. My, my! Such a proud guy!

I keep hoping these types get some long sit downs, but it seems they just fade from the scene.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. How do we get that guy into rehab so he can detox and de-trump?

[nattyice]

3. Prison, of course!

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Imagine...

[BradAllison]

4. Fugly piece of shit.

Someone hose this animal down.

[Probatim]

6. That's the look of a man who knows he made a huge mistake.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I heard the tail end of this report early this morning on my local news radio station

here in Philly. What a dirtbag. I'm glad they caught him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Lock this idiot up