Christopher Cantwell, a violent neo-Nazi who’s civil trial begins later this month for his role in organizing the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., has been receiving help to prepare his defense from Matt Hale, a fellow white supremacist housed in the communications management unit at USP Marion, a medium security US penitentiary. Hale is the one-time leader of the World Church of the Creator, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “for a time one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in America.” Largely composed of racist skinheads, the organization promoted a “theology” largely based around a belief about the supposed superiority of the white race. Since the early 1990s, followers committed to “racial holy war” have been convicted for murder, firebombing a NAACP office in Washington state, and plotting to bomb a Black church in Los Angeles. Hale is currently serving a 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge during the trial of Ben Smith, a follower who carried out a killing spree. Cantwell is currently serving time in prison for threatening to rape another white supremacist’s wife to pressure him into revealing the identity of the leader of the so-called “Bowl Patrol,” “a competing neo-Nazi group formed to glorify Charleston mass shooter Dylann Roof.”
While serving his sentence, Cantwell met Hale along with another man named William A. White, who has played an even more significant role in helping him prepare for his upcoming trial in Charlottesville. White, in turn, is in prison for soliciting violence against the foreman of the federal jury that convicted Hale. According to the US Justice Department, White created the now defunct Overthrow.com website in the late 2000s as a platform for the American National Socialist Workers Party. He used the website to post derogatory comments and personal information about the jury foreman, including their home address and phone numbers.
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