Maxwell Azzarello, the person who died after setting himself on hearth whereas former President Trump’s hush cash trial was going down, as soon as labored for the Democrat congressman who flipped Rep. George Santos’s seat blue, in line with on-line information.
Rep. Tom Suozzi presently represents Nassau County and elements of Queens, having taken workplace earlier this February. He additionally served as a congressman from 2017 to 2023, earlier than the disgraced Santos briefly took his seat.
Azzarello’s LinkedIn web page states that he briefly labored as an Operations Director for Pals of Tom Suozzi from August 2013 to November 2013. The Florida resident, 37, died on Friday night time as a consequence of extreme burns after self-immolating inside Acquire Pond Park close to the Manhattan Felony Courthouse.
FLORIDA MAN SET HIMSELF ON FIRE NEAR NYC COURTHOUSE HOLDING TRUMP TRIAL
Max Azzarello labored on Suozzi’s marketing campaign for Nassau County Government in 2013, in line with LinkedIn. (St. Johns County Sheriff’s Workplace / Getty Photographs)
At round 1:30 p.m., Azzarello took a number of pamphlets out of his backpack and threw them within the air, earlier than pouring a flammable liquid on his physique and setting himself on hearth. The pamphlets included an internet hyperlink to his Substack web page and mentioned conspiracy theories.
A New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD) spokesman instructed Fox Information Digital that Azzarello was pronounced lifeless at round 10:30 p.m. on Friday, round 9 hours after he self-immolated.
The decedent labored for Suozzi when the candidate was working for Nassau County Government in 2013. Azzarello’s LinkedIn profile says that he “lead numerous initiatives corresponding to making ready the candidate for debates, organizing industrial shoots, planning logistics for marketing campaign rallies, and finishing curiosity group questionnaires.”
Max Azzarello protests exterior of the Manhattan courthouse the place former U.S. President Donald Trump’s hush cash trial is underway on April 18, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Photographs)
Azzarello’s job duties additionally concerned growing social media content material and drafting press releases, plus updating Suozzi’s occasions calendar. In a press release to the New York Publish, Suozzi confirmed that he remembered the protester and somberly wished his household the very best.
“Max Azzarello labored on my marketing campaign for Nassau County Government in 2013 as a part of the sector workers,” Suozzi mentioned.
“Regardless that I haven’t seen or talked to Max since then I recall him being very sort, good and hardworking. It’s tragic that he has succumbed to his accidents and I’m conserving Max and his household in my prayers.”
Then-incumbent Democratic New York Rep. Tom Suozzi debates within the race for governor on the studios of WNBC4-TV June 16, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Craig Ruttle-Pool/Getty Photographs)
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Fox Information Digital reached out to Suozzi’s workplace for a press release, however didn’t hear again.
Fox Information Digital’s Louis Casiano and Landon Mion contributed to this report.
