Date: 10/18/08 10:07 AM
Subject: Judenpresse Says Pravda Bill Arrested
http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/180966
Roanoke neo-Nazi jailed on federal charges
By Laurence Hammack
The Roanoke Times
A white supremacist known for his inflammatory
Internet postings about
race-related issues - and his verbal attacks on the people
involved in them
- has been arrested on federal charges.
William A. White, commander of the Roanoke-based
American National
Socialist Workers Party, was being held without bond this morning
in the
Roanoke City Jail, according to Lt. Mark Sweentenberg of the
Roanoke
Sheriff's Office.
Asked what White is charged with, jail officials
referred questions to
federal authorities. "That's all we know, that he's a
federal inmate,"
Sweetenberg said.
Previous coverage
White's Web site closed by FBI (Oct. 17, 2008)
Roanoke neo-Nazi cleared of threat allegation (July 29, 2008)
Kevin Foust, a senior FBI agent who supervises the bureau's
Roanoke office,
referred questions to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago.
Officials there were not immediately available for comment.
However, a copy of what appears to be a search warrant
recently used to
seize White's computer equipment, which White posted to a Yahoo
message
group earlier this week, indicates a Chicago link to a federal
investigation into his activities.
The warrant authorized FBI agents to search a
Patterson Avenue building
that houses the computer equipment White uses to maintain his Web
site,
overthrow.com. According to the warrant, authorities were looking
for
computer files and other records "that may contain all
evidence of the
crime of threatening Hale Juror A."
In an interview earlier this week, White said that's a
reference to a juror
in the case of Matthew Hale, who was convicted by a Chicago jury
in 2004 of
soliciting the murder of a U.S. District Court judge.
White said he recently included information about the
juror, including a
home address, in an overthrow.com posting that raised concerns
about the
case. But White said he made no threats against the juror.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama
organization that monitors hate
groups, agreed on its Web site that White did not directly
propose violence
against the juror.
"But he told his readers that the man 'played a
leading role in inciting
both the conviction and the harsh sentence that followed," a
blog item on
the law center's Web site states. "He also described the
conviction as
wrongful and said the prison term handed Hale was a 'criminally
long
sentence.' "
Mark Potok, director of the law center's Intelligence
Project, said
Thursday that while White has often come close to the line
between free
speech and criminal activity, he may have finally crossed it by
posting
personal information about a juror.
Federal authorities are particularly sensitive about
protecting jurors in
cases such as Hale's, Potok said.
Since the FBI seizure of White's computer equipment
last Saturday,
overthrow.com has been down.
But White apparently was not charged until recently.
In a posting to a
Yahoo message group for white supremacists, made either late
Thursday night
or sometime during the day Friday, someone identifying himself as
White
said the FBI had just executed a second search warrant, this one
on his
home.
"They left remarking on how they did not have
anything with which to
chargesme [sic] and they needed to plan theyre [sic] next
step," the post
stated.
With White now in jail, the next step will be an
arraignment before a
magistrate judge, which could happen as early as Sunday
afternoon.
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