16 members of Florida white supremacist gang charged in sweeping indictment

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NEW: 16 Members of white supremacist gang charged by federal prosecutors in Florida with racketeering.

One of the members has pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

More details reported with @richschapiro

16 members of Florida white supremacist gang charged in sweeping indictment
The group called the Unforgiven required its members to study "Aryan Philosophy" and carry out acts of extreme violence, the indictment says.
nbcnews.com
10:38 AM · Jul 15, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/16-members-florida-white-supremacist-gang-charged-sweeping-indictment-n1274080

Sixteen members of a Florida-based white supremacist group – who went by names such as Shrek, Pretty Boy and Scumbag – have been charged in a 12-count racketeering indictment accusing them of engaging in acts of murder, kidnapping and other offenses.

The members of the group called the Unforgiven used “corrupt law enforcement officers and state employees” to gather information about the investigation and to smuggle contraband to incarcerated inmates, the indictment says.

The group required its members to study "Aryan Philosophy" and carry out acts of extreme violence to gain entry into the gang, the indictment says. They were also required to ​​get tattoos – which included swastikas, Iron Crosses, and S.S. bolts – pay dues and attend regular meetings known as “Church,” the court papers say.

Members also created a political branch called Route 21, which federal prosecutors described as an “attempt to disguise the white supremacist roots of its political activity.”

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[lindysalsagal]

1. Proud to start the reccing.

[lindysalsagal]

2. 12 counts means that even if they can only convict on half-we're better off as a nation.

[The Magistrate]

3. "corrupt law enforcement officers and state employees"

[BeyondGeography]

7. Nice to see a chip put in that iceberg

Much more of that, please. Since people only learn the hard way.

[jaxexpat]

10. Here in the south they're known simply as......

law enforcement officers and state employees. The honorific "corrupt" is superfluous.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. "Scumbag" is right.

[lagomorph777]

5. Nail 'em to the wall.

Get them to squeal on their connections around the country (and maybe beyond? To Moscow?).

[Budi]

6. The Aryan Brotherhood got it's roots in the CA prisons. 1964 Bikers...

ARYAN BROTHERHOOD

The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, Alice Baker, AB or One-Two, is the nation’s oldest major white supremacist prison gang and a national crime syndicate.

Founded in 1964 by Irish bikers as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons, the AB is today the largest and deadliest prison gang in the United States, with an estimated 20,000 members inside prisons and on the streets.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/aryan-brotherhood

[appalachiablue]

8. Never knew that, 1964 & still going, sheesh

[mopinko]

13. wait- irish bikers?

saints preserve us.

honestly, in my mind being irish is not the same as being white.
which is not to say i dont have privileges because i am pale. but the idea that an irishman can harken back to the glory days of our people is just mad.
we've been fighting for self determination for most of our existence. we kept the romans out, but that's about it. we're still stuck w the brits. bojo was fine w brexit restarting the troubles.

egad.

[Budi]

14. Same reaction I had when I read that. Huh?

I do believe there was some matter about a nefarious Irish group running weapons, drugs back then, but I'd have to do a search of that group. Not sure of who they were connected to.
Seems that front group was also finding its way into US biker territories.

A lot of bad shite went down back in the 60's,

[mopinko]

15. not surprised to find irish crooks, but calling themselves aryan?

harkening back to someone else's past.
shared distant roots, sure. but in the time of nation states? rly?

[Budi]

17. I'd maybe dismiss some of this if it were'nt from the SPLC.

It makes me curious to know more of the background on how this 60's group of imprisoned Irish bikers, grew the Aryan Nation to such a large & long lasting organization.

They somehow became the symbol of Racial Hate.
I'm more curious as to what Foreign or National Mob Syndicate fronted them in the 60's & still to this day.

Because ya know they didn't just do it on their own.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Racketeering charges! Good, it's time to bring on the big guns of justice and charge these thugs

w/ such crimes. More people need to be charged this too in the future, perhaps this is a sign of the coming times, when more indictments are issued in the future...

[herding cats]

11. It's interesting Michael Curzio, who just pleaded guilty Monday

And was released on time served Wednesday, is one of them.

[msfiddlestix]

16. I'm confused, released on bail or charges dismissed?

the former is bad enough, the latter suggest a corrupt judge, imo.

[herding cats]

18. Released. He'd already served the maximum 6 months.

CNN)A US Capitol rioter who joined a white supremacist gang while in prison for attempted murder pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor related to the January 6 insurrection.

The rioter, Michael Curzio, was sentenced to six months in jail but will be released Wednesday because he has been in jail since mid-January and will receive credit for time already served.

"Mr. Curzio should be sentenced to the six-month statutory maximum," federal Judge Carl Nichols said at a hearing. "I am not in a position to be able to impose a longer sentence than that. I think that six-month sentence is appropriate here. Mr. Curzio will have, in two days, served that entire sentence."

Curzio is now the second Capitol rioter to learn his fate. More than a dozen rioters have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing later this summer and in the fall.

It's highly unlikely that other rioters who plead guilty to the same charge will receive the full six-month maximum sentence. Curzio's case is unique, given his attempted murder conviction, and the fact that he has been incarcerated while awaiting trial since his arrest on January 14.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/rioter-six-month-sentence-michael-curzio/index.html

[msfiddlestix]

19. an attempted murder charge is only gonna take six months of jail time. hmm.

somehow I was under the impression, that it was treated a lot more seriously than a few months in a county clanker.

wow. that must have been some other country I was living in and didn't know it.

[oasis]

12. "paying dues" for membership, eh? The Feds got some dues for ya!