Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:38 pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1 ... ges-things
Andrew Anglin adept at skipping the bill for his neofascist hate, but federal warrant changes things
Anglin, one of the nation’s most notorious neofascists as the longtime publisher of the explicitly pro-Nazi Daily Stormer, has a number of multimillion-dollar legal judgments against him that he has made a second career out of skipping out on and avoiding, claiming that he lives overseas now. But now a federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for Anglin in the case involving the largest of these judgments—which means that Anglin is now officially a federal fugitive, and his options are going to become very limited.
On Wednesday in Missoula, Montana, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen issued a bench warrant for Anglin’s arrest, after three years of Anglin ignoring a $14 million judgment against him. In August 2019, he was ordered to pay that amount to a Montana woman for orchestrating an antisemitic harassment campaign against her family.
Earlier this year, on Sept. 28, a magistrate judge’s recommendation to hold Anglin in civil contempt for his failure to respond to post-judgment discovery requests about his monetary assets was adopted by a federal court, which granted Anglin 30 days to clear himself of contempt-of-court findings by complying. He again ignored the finding, so Christensen issued the warrant for Anglin's arrest this week.
He’s proven previously adept at just skipping out on any legal consequences for his hateful before. A federal judge in Ohio awarded Muslim American radio host Dean Obeidallah $4.1 million in damages from Anglin in June 2019, after the Stormer published a piece claiming he had taken responsibility for a May 2017 terrorist attack by Islamist radicals at an Ariana Grande concert. He’s been able to skip out on any payments in that case so far.
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