Neo-Nazi pleads guilty to 'monstrous plots' to poison Jewish children in NYC [View all]

A neo-Nazi known as “Commander Butcher,” from the country of Georgia, pleaded guilty on Monday to hate crimes over a plot to poison Jewish children in New York City.

Michail Chkhikvishvili pleaded guilty to soliciting hate crimes and sending instructions to make bombs and ricin, a lethal poison, the Department of Justice said.

Chkhikvishvili planned to distribute poisoned candy to children at Jewish schools in Brooklyn and other attacks against minorities.

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Chkhikvishvili, 23, was a leader of a white supremacist extremist group known as the Maniac Murder Cult or MKY.

MKY is an international, violent extremist group that adheres to a neo-Nazi ideology that promotes violence against Jews and others. The group is based in Russia and Ukraine and has members in the US and other countries, prosecutors said.

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