person to kill. just any black person. we also filed a civil suit against robert shelton when he was the imperial wizard of the united klans of america. my take on robert shelton was that he was very smart. you could tell by the way he organized, the way he dressed. he wore klan uniforms and paraphernalia around klan gatherings and stuff, but not in the public. he was a coat and tie kind of guy. and he set up an organization that was pretty sophisticated. shelton s chapters were responsible for really horrific violence. shelton s people were organized and were vicious. a number of them had military training, and that made them a much more dangerous threat. over the last several months, members of the aryan nations church and other neo-nazi groups have been connected to a whole series of very violent events. the united klans of america, the country s oldest group of ku klux klansmen, is threatened with financial ruin.
well, i said, now s the chance for me to get these documents. and i took a long shot. i sent a deposition discovery document to mrs. hayes and said, bring all the documents to the federal courthouse. she appeared with all the documents, every one of them. the constitution of the united klans of america ended up to be some of the most powerful evidence that we had against the uka. and so we had to put witnesses on the stand. the perfect witness was gary thomas rowe. gary thomas rowe was an fbi informant. he was involved in some of the
Beulah Mae Donald and her attorney Michael Figures join forces with Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center to wage a multi-million-dollar civil suit.
and that was the 50-page constitution of the united klans of america. documents that you don t get to see unless you re in a klan. so i said, i d like to take these with me. he said, no, i want you to get my son off death row. i said, well, a jury put him on death row, a judge did, and i can t do anything about that. but don t you destroy these documents. so i walked out of there with nothing. in about a week or two, benny hayes was arrested and put into mobile county jail. he had burned his house down to get money to hire a lawyer to represent his son. and he had been indicted for that. we were able to establish it was, in fact, arson. so our office prosecuted him under the mail fraud charge. the judge gave him five years.
followed essentially bankrupted the united klans of america. no money, no problems. there is a similar calculation going on right now in the far right groups. but this time, no lawsuit is needed. the wall street journal reports that the oath keepers are, quote, splintering after board members accused the founder of spending his money on hair dye, stakes and guns. that s right, hair dye. him and rudy giuliani. the leader of the proud boys that the fbi referred to as a prolimbic informant was under pretrial monitoring is to strapped for cash, he s selling black lives matter and impeach 45 t-shirts. keep it up. we ll be right back after this. s hot dog or. chicken? only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.