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Cornell student Patrick Dai confessed to making heinous threats against Jews after FBI agents traced his IP address to campus and his hometown.
Dai was booked into the Broome County Sheriff’s Department yesterday on behalf of US Marshals. He is due to appear in federal court in Syracuse this morning.
Prosecutors traced the heinous threats from the forum to Dai’s off-campus apartment where he was taken into custody yesterday, and others to the Rochester suburb of Pittsford, where he grew up and where his parents still live.
Patrick Dai, 21, was booked into the Broome County Jail last night. He will appear in a federal court in Syracuse this morning
Dai confessed to an FBI agent after being read his Miranda rights, according to the complaint
His professor father – who believes his son is innocent – says his mother was so concerned about him that she was on her way to his home when he was taken into custody.
The 21-year-old is from Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester.
‘My son is in severe depression. He cannot control his emotion well due to the depression.
‘No, I don’t think he committed the crime,’ he told The New York Post.
The federal complaint against him, however, says he confessed to making the threats during an interview with an FBI agent.
‘Dai admitted, after receiving Miranda warnings, that he was the person who used the internet to post the threatening messages described above,’ it reads.
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Of the several messages left on the school’s Greekrank page – a forum meant for fraternity and sorority reviews – were messages with the headlines ‘Eliminate Jewish living from Cornell Campus’ or ‘Israel deserved 10/7’
In addition to his Cornell IP address, FBI agents also traced some of the posts Dai made on the forum to Pittsford, a Rochester suburb, where he grew up. Above, his childhood home
According to his parents, Dai (as a nine-year-old, above), was ‘not in control of his emotions’
Dai confessed to an FBI agent after being read his Miranda rights, according to the complaint
Dai has been charged with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications, according to the Department of Justice.
If convicted, he could serve five years in prison, three years supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
The threats, posted online last week, rattled the Cornell community.
Jewish students were advised to avoid the kosher dining hall after the threats were made on the Greekrank forum.
The harasser used ‘Hamas’ as their username, threatening specifically to target the dining hall and kill Jewish ‘pigs’.
Dai’s parents live in a three-bedroom, $500,000 home in Pittsford. His father is a professor at China’s Tianjin University.
A New York State Police Department cruiser is parked in front of Cornell University’s Center for Jewish Living, in Ithaca, NY, Monday, Oct 30, 2023
