In an audacious legal battle waged against the U.S. government over his student loans, Justin Mohn, who is accused of decapitating his federal worker father, argued that he deserved more than $10 million because he should have been warned his status as an “overeducated, white male” would hurt his job prospects.
Mohn was arrested Tuesday night in Fort Indiantown Gap, a sprawling military complex in Pennsylvania, hours after he shared a grisly YouTube video in which he appears to show off his father’s decapitated head. In the nearly 15-minute clip, titled “Mohn’s Militia – Call to Arms for American Patriots,” Mohn rails against the Biden administration and federal government employees, demanding they be “publicly executed for betraying their country,” per the Morning Call.
The YouTube rant is far from the first time Mohn has expressed his disdain for the federal government. Since 2022, he has sued U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the U.S. Department of Education. Last year, he also filed suits against the U.S. Attorney’s Office and The Attorney General of the United States.
In the series of lawsuits, Mohn argued it was unfair he be required to pay off his student loans given the struggle he faced finding work upon exiting college. He alleged the government “negligently and fraudulently” pushed him to take out the loans “without sufficiently warning him of the possibility that he would face a difficult job market and could be unable to pay back his loan.”
Mohn attended Penn State from 2010 to 2014. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness management and was initially required to pay $165 per month toward his loans. The cost was later reduced to $80.45 per month after he pursued an income-based repayment plan.
“But, Mohn says, he has been unable to secure a job commensurate with his education or sufficient to enable him to maintain his student loan payments,” according to court documents filed in 2023. “He attributes his situation to employers’ ‘perc[eption of] him as an overeducated, white male[,] which led to affirmative action against him whilst providing no benefits.”
As a result, he had to move back with his parents and has suffered “mental anguish, emotional distress, financial strain, lack of savings, and debt, all of which allegedly impacted his quality of life.”
Each of the lawsuits has since been dismissed, the most recent in December, USA Today reported.
“He essentially claims the United States lent him money which he needed to repay under a student loan contract beginning in late 2014 but this loan allowed him to get a college education and he cannot find a satisfactory job as an overeducated white man to repay the loan,” U.S. Judge Mark Kearney wrote in his ruling.
Mohn specifically threatened Keary by name in his YouTube manifesto, which was viewed some 5,000 times before it was scrubbed from the platform. He was arraigned Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime and abuse of a corpse in connection with the slaying of his father, Michael Mohn, who was a federal government employee of more than 20 years.
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