WASHINGTON: An Army reservist charged with taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol was known as a Nazi sympathizer who wore a Hitler mustache, coworkers told federal investigators.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, 30, was employed as a security contractor at a Navy base when he was alleged to have breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, authorities said.
In court papers filed Friday, federal prosecutors in Washington said his coworkers at the Naval Weapons Station Earle in Colts Neck, New Jersey, told investigators that he held white supremacist views.
The filing included photos from Hale-Cusanellis cellphone of him with a Hitler mustache, along with pro-Nazi cartoons.
One Navy seaman said that Hale-Cusanelli told him he would kill all the Jews and eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and he wouldnt need to season them because the salt from their tears would make it flavorful enough.
Other coworkers recalled Hale-Cusanelli making derogatory remarks about women, Black people and other…
