Neo-Nazi cult leader Michail Chkhikvishvili — whose propaganda inspired real-world bloodshed, including a deadly Nashville school shooting — was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a New York federal judge who called his crimes “extraordinarily serious.” The 22-year-old Georgian national, known online as “Commander Butcher,” appeared gaunt and pale in green jail scrubs, fighting back tears as US District Judge Carol Bagley Amon handed down the sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court. “The defendant is not being sentenced for his warped views,” Amon said. “He’s being sentenced for his calls to action.” Chkhikvishvili led the Maniac Murder Cult, or MKY, an international neo-Nazi extremist group that used Telegram and other encrypted platforms to recruit followers and encourage acts of racist violence, according to federal prosecutors. He distributed bomb-making instructions, poison recipes and ‘The Hater’s Handbook,’ a manifesto praising Hitler, Timothy McVeigh and Satan while encouraging school shootings and attacks on minorities and Jews. Assistant US Attorney Andrew Reich urged the court to come down hard on Chkhikvishvili, telling the judge, “This is not a case about abstract rhetoric or internet trolling. This is about a systemic, deliberate solicitation of real-world violence.
via new york post: Neo-Nazi cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ gets 15 years for online calls to violence that led to shooting
siehe auch: Georgian white supremacist leader sentenced to 15 years for hate crimes A Georgian national who led an international white supremacist extremist group was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for soliciting hate crimes and distributing instructions for making bombs and ricin, Justice Department officials announced. Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon. Prosecutors identified Chkhikvishvili as a leader of Maniac Murder Cult — also known as “MKY” and “MMC” — a Neo-Nazi organization that promotes violence against racial minorities, Jewish communities and others the group labels “undesirables.” Chkhikvishvili was extradited from Moldova to the Eastern District of New York in May 2025 and pleaded guilty in November; Neo‑Nazi ‘Commander Butcher’ jailed over US Santa poison plot for Jewish children The neo-Nazi was described as the leader of the ‘Maniac Murder Cult’. A neo‑Nazi cult leader who plotted to have a recruit dress as Santa Claus and hand poisoned sweets to minority children has been jailed for 15 years. Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22 from Georgia, was the head of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group, known to his fellow members as ‘Commander Butcher’. The group, under his influence, planned to attack racial minorities in the US, according to The Mirror. Chkhikvishvili was jailed for 15 years by a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday (May 13), having pleaded guilty to soliciting hate crimes and distributing information about making bombs and ricin, in November. (…) The neo-Nazi was described as being the leader of the ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ by prosecutors. His international extremist group followed an ideology promoting violence intended to trigger a racial and religious war, promoted through Telegram channels and outlined in the ‘Hater’s Handbook’. A Brooklyn court heard how the handbook appears to have inspired several real-life killings. One of these includes a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, last year that killed a 16-year-old student. Shooter Solomon Henderson, 17, left behind a recording after the fatal incident at Nashville Antioch High School, attributing his crimes to the Maniac Murder Cult, which is based in Russia and Ukraine.
