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Bill White, who formerly ran Overthrow.com (until the FBI confiscated it), is now in jail on the charge of threatening jurors.

“Right now,” said Mr. White, the head of the American National Socialist Workers Party, “we’re facing the potential of a half-black candidate financed by Jewish money going up against a white candidate financed by Jewish money, who are both advocating the same policy. So you’ve got two terrible choices.”

On Friday, about three weeks after that interview, Mr. White was jailed on suspicion of making threats against a juror who was on a panel in 2004 that convicted a white supremacist of plotting to kill a federal judge.

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There have been sporadic reports throughout the country of Obama signs vandalized with swastikas, windows smashed at local Obama campaign offices and racist pamphlets dropped on doorsteps. Overt and thinly veiled racist comments about Mr. Obama have been caught on camera at rallies, and a Republican women’s group in California — the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated — has made headlines for a flier that showed Mr. Obama’s face on a faux food stamp that also included watermelon and fried chicken.

NYT

As part of a roundup of white supremacists capable of violence, apparently, Bill White was snatched.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Bondurant says the charge involves alleged threats to a Chicago jury foreman in the 2004 case of Matthew Hale, who was convicted of soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Bondurant has declined to comment on the case, but says the trial will be in Chicago.

Hale was the leader of an organization which held similar neo-Nazi beliefs as White’s organization. White has said he posted information about a juror online, but he made no threats.

WSET

See more about Matt Hale below.

While there are no direct threats listed in the federal complaint against White, documents detail how White is accused of posting the juror’s name, address, and cell phone number on his website overthrow.com.

White is also accused of calling the juror to verify his information.

WSLS

Interesting.

A federal criminal complaint said the juror, identified only as Hale Juror A, received a cell phone call this past Sept. 11, from a man who asked the juror’s name, whether the juror lived at a specific address, and whether the juror had served on the panel for the Matthew Hale trial. Afterward, the caller said, “that’s all I need to know” and hung up, the complaint said.

Hale Juror A received about 50 cell phone text messages afterward, some of which were garbled, but others of which had messages in support of white supremacy, the complaint said.

Upon receiving the complaint, authorities entered Hale Juror A’s name into Google, and found a posting on a Web site, which purported to include the juror’s name, date of birth, and home address, and claimed the juror “played a key role in convicting Hale,” the complaint said. The entry also included the juror’s purported cell and office phone numbers, the name of a partner and a cat, and a color photograph, the complaint said.

CBS

Probably they’re mad that others harassed the guy. White has also posted names and addresses of the Jena 6, columnist Leonard Pitts, and several ADL staffers.

He is charged with obstruction of justice.

The FBI accuses him of threatening a federal juror from a 2004 case involving white supremacist Matthew Hale.

WSLS

Obstruction of justice?

William White of Virginia was indicted Tuesday in Chicago on charges he sought to harm the foreman of the jury that convicted white supremacist Matthew Hale in 2004 of plotting to kill U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow. The judge had ruled against Hale in a trademark-infringement suit.

White listed the foreman’s address, phone numbers and the name of a pet cat under the heading, “The Juror Who Convicted Matt Hale,” according to the indictment.

Chicago Tribune

It’s the cat that did it.

An admitted racist since the age of 12, Matt Hale became one of the most effective and best-known leaders of the far right after he became head of the World Church of the Creator (as it was then known) in 1996. Under Hale’s PR-savvy guidance the group regularly gained publicity for its activities and for the violent incidents associated with its members. A 1999 decision by the State of Illinois to reject Hale’s application for a law license, due to his past “conduct,” is widely thought to have helped trigger a murderous shooting spree by his follower, Benjamin Smith, in which two people were killed and nine injured - all of them members of racial or religious minority groups.

In November 2002, the World Church of the Creator lost a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against it by the Te-Ta-Ma Truth Foundation, which had successfully trademarked the name “Church of the Creator” years before. A federal judge ordered Hale’s group to stop using its name, to give up its Web addresses and to turn over all printed material bearing its name. Hale refused to comply. In January 2003, upon arriving for a contempt of court hearing, he was arrested for soliciting the judge’s murder. During Hale’s incarceration, special administrative measures were imposed to reduce his ability to communicate with his followers. In April 2004, Hale was convicted of one count of solicitation of murder and three counts of obstruction of justice. Without Hale’s leadership, the Creativity Movement has fallen into decline.

ADL

Matt Hale was indicted and convicted for, when a subordinate said he might do something to Judge Judy Lefkow, basically telling him “your life is your own.” Shows how if you run a potentially dangerous organization to those in power, you need to explicitly tell others not to do illegal stuff.

If convicted, White faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

WBBM

There’s the readout, but that’s a maximum. Probably if he is convicted, he will get less than that.

Interestingly, Bill White did not just target jurors and anti-white-supremacist activists. He also targetted fellow white activists:

Google cache of: Charles Martel On VNN Forum, where Bill White outs a fellow White Nationalist.

Original post: The Juror Who Convicted Matt Hale on Overthrow.com, which doesn’t exist in the Wayback Machine or Google Cache, but there’s an archive of the forum post. The information is incorrect except for date of birth, cell and work numbers. Obviously, do not use this information for illegal purposes.

The indictment of Bill White (PDF) has more legal information.

We are unsure of where this case is going and will post updates.