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Sat Nov 14, 2020, 12:03 PM Nov 2020

White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case

Source: Associated Press

White supremacist sentenced to 2 years in bomb plot case

By KEN RITTER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
November 13, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A white supremacist who told an undercover FBI agent about his plans to firebomb a synagogue or attack a Las Vegas bar catering to LGBTQ customers was sentenced Friday to two years in prison.

Conor Climo, 24, apologized before U.S. District Judge James Mahan sentenced him to prison followed by six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring. Prosecutors recommended a 30-month prison sentence.

“I was truly wrong for all of this,” Climo said. “I even have come to really regret everything, everything that I was involved with.”

The judge gave Climo credit for the jail time he already has served since his August 2019 arrest and agreed to recommend that he serves his prison time in Louisiana, near grandparents whom he plans to live with after his release.

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The FBI said it began investigating Climo in April 2019 after learning of his encrypted internet chats with members of Feuerkrieg Division, an international offshoot of a U.S.-based neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division. Climo told FBI agents that he joined Feuerkrieg Division but left because he “became bored with the group and their inaction,” according to a court filing.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-arrests-las-vegas-772ce6627abfa1d80edaa7a0f7291214


FILE - This Sept. 22, 2016, file photo taken from video from KTNV 13 Action News shows Conor Climo during an interview while walking a Las Vegas neighborhood, heavily armed. Climo, a white supremacist who told an undercover FBI agent about his plans to firebomb a synagogue or attack a Las Vegas bar catering to LGBTQ customers has been sentenced to two years in prison. Climo apologized before U.S. District Judge James Mahan sentenced him Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, to prison followed by six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring. (KTNV 13 Action News via AP, File)
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