Zachary Jacob Moitoza, 29, pleaded guilty to sending threatening and racist hate mail to a UO philosophy professor and two Diablo Valley College professors.
Moitoza entered the plea this week before U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken and is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
According to the affidavit, the emails sent to the UO professor contained several racial epithets and threatened to the lives of the professors. In the message Moitoza called the professor a “white trash race traitor” and said he deserved “extinction just like all evolutionary vestiges.”
Moitoza suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and acknowledged he is taking antipsychotic and antidepressant medications to help deal with his mental health issues.
Moitoza also plead guilty to sending similar threatening emails to two other professors at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Calif., where he went from 2003 to 2005 according to the affidavit. He attended the UO from 2005 to 2007, graduating with a B.S. in Political Science.