Neo-Nazi gets 15 years for plot to poison Jewish kids

(JNS) — A Georgian national known as “Commander Butcher,” who admitted to plotting a mass-casualty attack targeting Jews and minorities in New York City, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22, a leader of the neo-Nazi extremist group Maniac Murder Cult, pleaded guilty in November to soliciting hate crimes and distributing bomb-making and ricin instructions. He was extradited from Moldova.

Federal authorities said that the plot evolved into a plan to poison Jewish children in Brooklyn on New Year’s Eve by distri...