New York Daily News

City sanit. rioter good boy: mom

- BY ELLEN MOYNIHAN AND NOAH GOLDBERG

The QAnon-supporting New York City sanitation worker busted by the FBI for storming the U.S. Capitol is a “stand-up guy” — just ask his mom.

“My son is a good boy, a great father. He’s going to be a grandfathe­r. Always took care of his family. He has a son he took care of since when he was 2 years old,” said Dominick Madden’s mother, Roseanne Musco.

Musco told the Daily News Friday she didn’t know her son was going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the riot. But the Brooklyn man was caught on camera roaming the halls of the Capitol building during the Jan. 6 siege that killed five people.

Madden (photo), who made more than $130,000 in his Department of Sanitation job in 2020, was sporting a blue QAnon sweatshirt as he walked to the Senate wing, according to a federal complaint.

He told his DSNY supervisor­s that he was out on “sick leave” on Jan. 6, and they didn’t ask about the riot “for legal reasons,” according to the complaint.

FBI agents busted Madden at his Sheepshead Bay home on Thursday night, the agency said.

He was hit with a slew of federal charges, including knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or area without lawful authority, and knowingly engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or area.

Musco called into her son’s virtual arraignmen­t Friday afternoon, and was one of three relatives who signed onto a $250,000 bond securing Madden’s release. His sister and brother-in-law also signed onto the bond package, which included putting up their New Jersey home as collateral.

As a condition of his release, Madden is barred from traveling outside of the New York metro area and D.C., where his case will be prosecuted moving forward.

He declined to speak with a News reporter as he got back to his house in Brooklyn after his court appearance.

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