Colorado man sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue
Updated 1:09 PM ET, Sat February 27, 2021
Richard Holzer, seen in this booking photo, has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a Colorado synagogue. (CNN)A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
Richard Holzer who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and White supremacist, according to the Justice Department pleaded guilty last October to federal hate crime and explosive charges for planning to blow up the historic synagogue, the second-oldest in the state.