The MAGA-loving board of education member targeted in a vile text-message scandal that went viral was the subject of a second, even more vicious chat, The Post has learned.
“I swear she can’t die soon enough,” Mitesh Gandhi, whose wife Aditi is also on the board, allegedly wrote of Marlboro, NJ mom-of-three Danielle Bellomo, screenshots provided to The Post showed. “I’m gonna slaughter her now.”
“Already working on a few things,” Gandhi, 47, wrote in another note, screenshots showed.
“Need this bitch to crack,” he added in another exchange.
The messages were read aloud in Monmouth County Superior Court Thursday by the judge as Bellomo, 38, sought to extend a protective order against Gandhi, witnesses said.
A judge denied Gandhi’s bid to dismiss the case, extending until January a protective order which requires Gandhi to stay away from Bellomo and bars him from contacting her, Bellomo’s lawyer, Tim Howes, told The Post.
“We wanted to get through this for the protection of my family,” Bellomo told The Post.
In the newly revealed chat between Gandhi and another Marlboro dad, whistleblower David Pucciarelli, Gandhi allegedly called Bellomo “a lying c–t.”
He also is accused of writing, “Mission is to just let her die by herself lol” and “we pivot to making her life miserable in other ways.”
“I just thought it was gossip, entertainment in my town,” said Pucciarelli, the father of two who was on the receiving end of the text exchange with Gandhi and who attended the court hearing — and said he’s prepared to testify in the case.
“I didn’t know who Danielle was. I just let him keep talking. … He brought her up all the time,” Pucciarelli, 50, who said he met Gandhi when their kids were on the same soccer team, told The Post.
“I wish I could go back in time and never respond to it.”
He eventually shared the texts with Bellomo, who reported them to police in September and obtained the protective order.
At another point in the message exchange, Gandhi mentioned cops showed up at his home.
“I told them she’s a fn bats–t c–t,” he wrote, adding, “About to really f her life up now lol.”
Gandhi was previously accused of taking part in the “This Bitch Needs to Die” group chat with the Marlboro board of ed vice president Chad Hyett, former board candidates Scott Semaya and Nirav Kadakia, and former public school teacher Lenny Thor.
The sick chat went viral in October, when a photo was posted to social media of Semaya at a public meeting typing into his phone, “Bellomo must be cold — her nips could cut glass right n.”
Semaya and another board candidate quickly dropped out of the race, and The Post’s story on the controversy caught the attention of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who called it “wrong. And evil” in an X post.
Police and prosecutors in New Jersey last week announced they would not press charges in the case, sparking outrage.
A lawyer for Semaya said previously, “we have maintained from the outset that Scott never committed a crime.” Hyett, Kadakia and Thor have not returned previous messages seeking comment.
A lawyer for Gandhi declined comment.
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