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‘Dead or alive’: Feds investigating BU staff member’s post about Musk’s DOGE
“We take those threats seriously,” U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said about the post.
A Boston University employee’s post on social media calling the actions of the Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental organization led by Elon Musk, treasonous gained widespread attention this week.
Charlie Kirk, a political activist and founder of conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, posted a screenshot of what appeared to be BU staffer Jared May’s Bluesky account. May allegedly posted a flyer of the DOGE team that said “Wanted for treason… Dead or alive.”
May works at the Questrom School of Business at BU, and his employee page appeared to have been taken down. In a statement, a BU spokesperson said “we are aware of a post made by an employee on his personal social media account.”
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“We do not comment on personnel matters. The views expressed do not reflect the values of Questrom School of Business,” the spokesperson said.
The men, who are all under the age of 24, were named and identified as engineers “critical” to DOGE who have access to classified and sensitive personal information throughout government agencies, WIRED reported. One of the men is reportedly a first-year student at Northeastern, another is reportedly a senior at Harvard.
“A Boston University employee, Jared May, has posted a call for six young DOGE employees to be murdered. Boston University should lose ALL federal grants and funding if May isn’t fired immediately,” Kirk wrote.
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Musk, the world’s richest man who runs DOGE as a “special government employee,” chimed in on his platform X and said that May “has committed a crime.”
Feds launch investigation
Edward Martin Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, released a statement Monday that their initial review of evidence “indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees.”
“We are in contact with FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing,” Martin’s statement said.
When asked about the BU staff member’s post, the new U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley told reporters Wednesday that “I can tell you we are investigating,” The Boston Globe reported.
“We take those threats seriously,” Foley said, according to the Globe.
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