Two leaders of a prison-based, neo-Nazi gang who were convicted of murder in 2017 received life sentences on Tuesday in Anchorage.
A pedestrian walks past the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Anchorage.
“He was one of the founders of a violent prison gang,” said U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess of Filthy Fuhrer, the first to be sentenced. Originally a means toward “improving its members’ positions in the prison hierarchy through violence, intimidation, and smuggling contraband,” members who were released out of prison “expanded their criminal activity to communities across Alaska,” federal prosecutors wrote.
“They drove him to a remote location in the woods outside Wasilla, shot him, and burned his body. A moose hunter discovered his remains a month later, along with burned remnants of the blue tarp, pieces of rope and duct tape, and several .380 shell casings,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo. “They wrapped themselves in the patina of being this white supremacist gang. But in the end they’re just criminals,” Burgess said.
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