BILL WHITE GUILTY IN CHICAGO

When the feds brought back the charges on Bill White in Chicago, we knew that they planned on making them stick, so we never thought that Bill was getting out this month as he might have hoped. Now it’s official: Bill White was found guilty of threatening the jury foreman in the trial of Matt Hale, currently serving 40 years for conspiring to kill a federal judge. And we also don’t believe, as it has been suggested that his sentence from this conviction will run concurrently with the one he is serving for his conviction in Roanoke. No, this guy has more time coming. So let’s see. In the first year of One People’s Project, the main dirtbags we were dealing with were Richard Barrett, Hal Turner, National Alliance, Bill White, Matt Hale and his World Church of the Creator. Ten years later, how’re they doing? In the case of Bill White and Hal Turner, we are happy as hell that those two in particular are out of commission. We were the group that brought them into the spotlight, as we should have, but we needed to be around to see them out of it. NOW we can uncork the champagne!

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Self proclaimed Roanoke Neo-Nazi Bill White has been convicted again on a federal charge, this time in Chicago.

A federal jury found White guilty of enticing harm against a federal juror on Wednesday afternoon.  The case now moves into the sentencing phase.

White was due to get out of jail on his Roanoke conviction January 18th.  A pre-sentencing report for White’s Chicago conviction will likely outline whether he will stay in jail or not.

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Full news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office

CHICAGO — A self-proclaimed white-supremacist was convicted today by a federal jury in Chicago of soliciting violence to the foreman of a federal jury in Chicago that convicted another white-supremacist, Matthew Hale, in 2004, federal law enforcement officials announced today.  The defendant, William A. White, was found guilty on one count of solicitation, announced Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

White, 33, also known as “Bill White,” of Roanoke, Va., faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.  Jurors deliberated several hours following a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, of Milwaukee, who was assigned to preside over the case in U.S. District Court in Chicago.  A sentencing date was not immediately set.

Judge Adelman initially had dismissed the indictment against White but a federal appeals court in Chicago reinstated the solicitation charge last summer.  Today’s verdict is White’s second federal conviction in little more than a year.  He is currently serving a 30-month federal sentence that was imposed last April after a federal jury in Roanoke convicted him in December 2009 of three counts of communicating threats in interstate commerce and one count of witness intimidation.

“After one white supremacist was tried, convicted and sentenced for soliciting the murder of a federal judge in Chicago, White solicited his followers to retaliate against the foreman of that jury,” Mr. Fitzgerald said.  “While freedom of speech is among our most cherished rights, the First Amendment does not protect anyone who intends to induce others to kill or injure.  It is critical to our system of justice that jurors and judges alike must be free to perform their duties without living in fear.”

According to the evidence at trial, White created and maintained a former web site, “Overthrow.com,” which was publicly accessible on the Internet.  The web site purported to be affiliated with the “American National Socialist Workers Party” (ANSWP), and claimed the organization was comprised of a “convergence of former [white supremacy] ‘movement’ activists who grew disgusted with the general garbage that ‘the movement’ has attracted and who formed the ANSWP under the Command of  Bill White.”  Members of the ANSWP were described as “National Socialists… who fight for white working people.”

Between Sept. 11 and Oct. 11, 2008, White used the Web site to solicit another person to injure Juror A on account of Juror A’s role as the foreperson of the jury that convicted Hale, the leader of a white-supremacist organization known as the World Church of the Creator, who was found guilty and sentenced to 40 years in prison for soliciting the murder of a federal judge in Chicago.

As part of White’s solicitation of violence against Juror A, White posted derogatory comments and  personal information about Juror A, including Juror A’s home address and phone numbers, to be posted on the Overthrow.com Web site on Sept. 11, 2008.  The solicitation occurred under circumstances strongly corroborating White’s intent that another person engage in criminal conduct using, attempting to use or threatening the use of force against Juror A.

White was aware that individuals associated with the white-supremacist movement, who were the target audience of his Web site, at times engaged in acts of violence, directed at non-whites, Jews, gays and persons perceived by white-supremacists as acting contrary to their interests.  Prior to the solicitation against Juror A, White on multiple occasions caused postings to the Web site which disclosed what purported to be the home address and/or personal identifying information of individuals who were targets of criticism on the Internet.  Certain of these postings during the same time period expressed White’s desire that acts of violence be committed against these specific individuals, including author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, individuals known as the “Jena 6,” a Canadian civil rights lawyer, and syndicated newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts.

The Government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Ferrara and William Hogan.