[LAUREN TAYLOR]

THE LEADER OF AN ALLEGED EASTERN EUROPEAN-BASED NEO-NAZI GROUP HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH SOLICITING HATE CRIMES AND ACTS OF MASS VIOLENCE IN NEW YORK CITY.

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS 20-YEAR-OLD MICHAIL CHKHIKVISHVILI –  A GEORGIAN NATIONAL THAT GOES BY THE NAME “MISHKA” – S SUSPECTED OF BEING THE LEADER OF A GROUP CALLED  “MANIACS MURDER CULT” – AN INTERNATIONAL RACIALLY OR ETHNICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENT EXTREMIST GROUP THAT “ADHERES TO A NEO-NAZI IDEOLOGY AND PROMOTES VIOLENCE AND VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST RACIAL MINORITIES, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND OTHER GROUPS IT DEEMS ‘UNDESIRABLES.’”

MISHKA IS ACCUSED OF PLANNING A NEW YEAR’S EVE ATTACK INVOLVING A SANTA CLAUSE DRESSING UP AND HANDING OUT POISONOUS CANDY TO JEWISH AND MINORITY CHILDREN IN NEW YORK.

PROSECUTORS SAY MISHKA WAS ARRESTED ON JULY 6TH IN MOLDOVA WHILE TRYING TO RECRUIT AN UNDERCOVER LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEE WHO WAS PRETENDING TO BE A RECRUIT FOR THE MANIACS MURDER CULT.

THEY SAY MISHKA ALSO CREATED A MANIFESTO TITLED THE “HATER’S HANDBOOK” AND DISTRIBUTED IT TO THE GROUPS MEMBERS IN WHICH HE ENCOURAGES AND INSTRUCTS WAYS TO COMMIT ACTS OF MASS VIOLENCE AND “ETHNIC CLEANSING”. FOR EXAMPLE, THE HANDBOOK CONTAINED WAYS IN WHICH TO COMMIT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND TERROR ATTACKS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.

US ATTORNEY PEACE SAID IN A STATEMENT:

 “HIS GOAL WAS TO SPREAD HATRED, FEAR AND DESTRUCTION BY ENCOURAGING BOMBINGS, ARSON AND EVEN POISONING CHILDREN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HARMING RACIAL MINORITIES, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS.  WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO FIND AND PROSECUTE THOSE WHO THREATEN THE SAFETY AND FREEDOMS OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES, NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD THESE CRIMINALS MIGHT BE HIDING.”

PROSECUTORS SAY MISHKA IS FACING A MAXIMUM OF 50 YEARS IN PRISON.

FOR SAN, I’M LAUREN TAYLOR