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...white supremacist demonstrators arrived about halfway through the memorial service, escorted by eight mounted police and more than 50 riot police...
SENTENCED. MATTHEW HALE, 33, white supremacist convicted last year of plotting to kill Chicago federal judge Joan Lefkow because of her ruling in a trademark dispute concerning the name of his church; to the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison; in Chicago. His case made headlines again in February when Lefkow's husband and mother were murdered by a deranged ex-plaintiff, who, despite early suspicions, had no connection to Hale...
...Humphrey Lefkow, seemed to lead unusually open and trusting lives. The couple drove to work together and held hands in public. Michael's bio is displayed on his practice's website. It includes his hobbies: opera, reading about Lincoln, singing in his church choir. At one point--before white-supremacist groups pasted the information onto their own sites--he apparently posted photos of his daughters and even the address of his home, in a tree-lined neighborhood of Chicago. And although the family had been the target of threats, the Lefkows did not have a burglar alarm...
...investigation has included a close look at Matthew Hale, one of the U.S.'s most notorious neo-Nazis, who is awaiting sentencing for soliciting Judge Lefkow's murder in 2002. Hale, 33, is the leader of a white-supremacist group formerly known as the World Church of the Creator. From prison, 10 miles from the Lefkows' home, he issued a statement denying any involvement in last week's murders in his weekly phone call to his mother Evelyn Hutcheson, who read his message to a TIME reporter in the tiny kitchen of her East Peoria home: "I totally condemn...
...died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members of white-supremacist groups in the U.S. at about 100,000. Many more are unaffiliated--which doesn't mean harmless. Of all hate crimes, only 5% to 10% are committed by members of hate groups, says Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University...