WHAT RACISM? Major Klan Group Folds After Member Pleads in Arms Case
NIce to see firearm crimes being prosecuted.
From the Southern Poverty Law Center (January 9, 2014):
Major Klan Group Folds After Member Pleads in Arms Case
Another one bites the dust.
Riddled with informants and with one of its members off to federal prison, the Knight Riders, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan officially disbanded on Jan. 4, shutting down its chapters, or klaverns, in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia.
“I know the Nazis want to say I’m a quitter and a coward,” Jeff Jones, the 53-year-old imperial wizard, or national leader, of the Knight Riders, told Hatewatch today. “I don’t care what they think. I don’t want to go to jail and be surrounded by the people I don’t want to be around in the first place. The jails are full of blacks and Mexicans.”
Just before Christmas, a member of the Knight Riders, Michael Lee Fullmore, 30, was sentenced in Virginia to 52 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of providing a firearm to a convicted felon. Fullmore, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, came to the attention of the FBI when he began taking steps to establish a more violent and radical sub-group of the Klan.
From the article linked in the text above from Savannah Now (December 24, 2013):
Claxton man gets 52 month federal sentence
According to evidence presented at the guilty plea hearing and sentencing by Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Lee, Fullmore, a member of the Georgia Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan, came to the attention of the FBI when he began to take steps to establish a more violent and radical sub-group of the Ku Klux Klan, which he intended would commit violent crimes against minorities.
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On one occasion, Fullmore also sold marijuana and firearms to an undercover law enforcement officer. Fullmore was arrested by the FBI in June 2013 after he stated to the confidential informant that he wanted to fire-bomb a Catholic church in the Claxton area based upon its ties to the Hispanic community.
Press Release from the US Attorney General’s office of the Western District of Virginia (December 20, 2013):
Georgia Man Sentenced To Prison For Selling Firearms To Felons To Support Violent Ku Klux Klan Group
Fullmore believed that this organization could be supported by selling firearms to convicted felons and militia groups. On numerous occasions, Fullmore sold firearms, including an AR-15 assault rifle and an AK-47 assault rifle with an obliterated serial number, … . .