Racists claim Idaho lawyer was set up

[proud2BlibKansan]

Onetime Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele was denied bail today in a case that has many of his fellow bigots suggesting in postings to white nationalist websites that the Idaho attorney must be an innocent victim of a conspiracy because of his racist views — not a man who plotted to have his wife and mother-in-law killed.

Steele was arrested June 11 and charged with use of interstate commerce in the commission of murder for hire. Federal authorities contend that Steele, 64, paid a man he knew to make it appear that his wife, Cyndi, and her mother died in a car accident. Steele hoped to collect on an insurance policy, an FBI informant said.

Four days after Steele’s arrest, auto shop workers discovered a pipe bomb attached to the underside of a sport utility vehicle driven by Cyndi Steele. Larry A. Fairfax, who like Steele lives in Slagle, Idaho, was charged with two felonies in connection with the pipe bomb and also is being held without bond. Fairfax — who was the FBI’s informant — says he rigged the device so that it wouldn’t explode. Prosecutors maintain that Fairfax didn’t disclose everything he knew about the alleged plot.

To many in the white supremacist world, the only plot is one they imagine is being perpetrated against Steele.

More ... http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/22/racists-see-set-up-in-arrest-of-idaho-lawyer/?ondntsrc=MBQ100670HTW&newsletter=HW062410

[Cleita]

1. Haha!

It couldn't happen to a more deserving asshat. Funny enough about Idaho, in spite of their conservative leanings, they also have a good sense of what is just and ethical.