Klan leaders on trial over Caribbean plot and mercenaries
Alabama Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Black of Birmingham and Joe Daniel Hawkins of Jackson face charges of conspiring to overthrow Dominica with mercenaries. They face weapons counts and an armed expedition plan with potential penalties up to 50 years and $38,000 fines. Jury selection took Monday. many jurors were disqualified over alleged bias links. One seated juror is a black woman.
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Alabama
Ku Klux Klan
Stephen Black
Birmingham
Ala
Joe Daniel Hawkins
Jackson
Miss
Dominica
Daughter sues parents for $1 million in deprogramming case
A 26 year old woman sues her parents and multiple associates in federal court for assault false imprisonment and conspiracy alleging abduction for religious deprogramming. The case centers on a 1977 competency hearing, two deprogramming homes and a prolonged detainment across Springfield New Hampshire and Minneapolis. The suit names her mother father brother brother in law attorney and religious leaders from The Way Ministry as defendants.
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Springfield
Mass
Max Wistow
U.S. District Court
Debra Lynn Rausch
Mrs. Rausch
Way Ministry
New Knoxville
Ohio
Ex-Nazi mayor named in suit over wartime Jewish persecution
A civil suit filed in Tampa accuses Kazys Palciauskas, former mayor of Kaunas, Lithuania, of aiding Nazi persecution of Jews between 1941 and 1942. The government says he ordered ghettos, restricted Jewish movement, and mandated the Star of David, while distributing confiscated property to occupiers. No evidence links him to killings, officials say.
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Tampa
Fla
United States
Kazys Paliauskas
Kaunas
U.S
Gary Betz
Palciauskas
Villisiampole
Betz
Pailauskas
Justice Department
St. Petersburg
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Dominica CO
New Hampshire
Minneapolis
J.A. Mayans
M.D
N. Golder
Crescent Park Baptist Church
E. University Odessa
Texas
Balie Griffith
North
General Electric
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