White supremacist found guilty of sending death threats

The Orlando Sentinel/September 12, 2014

 By Jeff Weiner

When Virginia white supremacist William White sent death threats to Central Florida law enforcers in 2012, he covered his digital tracks, according to testimony in his trial this week.

But despite an encrypted laptop and untraceable Internet connection — he bragged even the NSA couldn't crack it — White was undone by his frequent, bloodthirsty online tirades advocating violent government overthrow to anyone who might be reading, prosecutor Vincent Chiu told White's jury.

The charges against White stemmed from emailed threats against by FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Agent Kelly Boaz, Circuit Judge Walter Komanski and then-State Attorney Lawson Lamar, prominent officials in the case against the American Front white-supremacist group whose Osceola County compound was raided in May 2012.

The threats, sent soon after the raid, demanded the release of the American Front members.

"We are at your houses, we are at your kids houses we are at your grandkids houses... IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY... we are going to CUT THEIR [expletive] HEADS OFF and leave them in A COOLER OUTSIDE YOUR OFFICE," one of the threats read.

The threats came from an email address apparently created to send them, registered to the defunct National Socialist Liberation Front and using an untraceable Internet protocol address, according to testimony.

But a lengthy Facebook rant he left on a pro-American Front page led investigators to White.

On his profile, they found solicitations for the names and addresses of officials in the case, tirades advocating "political terror" and references to the threats: "To my knowledge, the Florida state officials have still not complied with the demands to release the prisoners."

In public posts and private messages, he advocated violence, prosecutors said.

"We don't need to change the laws, we need to off the pigs who made them," one post read. Others made reference to Charles Manson and song lyrics which also appeared in the threats.

White's federal defender, Larry Henderson, argued that the government failed to prove that his client was "the person sitting behind the keyboard."

Anyone could have highjacked the accounts tied to the threats, or created them to frame White, Henderson argued.

But the prosecution stressed connections throughout the trial: The Facebook was full of photos from White's youth. A former tenant and employee testified it was White's profile. The same email address had produced threats against officials in another case against him in Virginia.

"You look through the evidence, and it only leads you to one place," Chiu said.

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