Towergate WILL be investigated: White House demands Congress probe Trump's claims Obama bugged his home - as former intelligence director James Clapper 'absolutely denies' it Interviews with people close to Juan Thompson, who was arrested on Thursday for allegedly making bomb threats against at least eight Jewish community centers, unlock the sordid details of his life and career. Ian D'Emilia, Thompson's former friend and Vassar College roommate, told the New York Post that he earned the serial fabulist's ire last February after he told reporter Doyle Murphy with the Riverfront Times that Thompson had always been a 'peculiar guy'.