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Aryan Warriors’ defense begins
Handful of family members testify

By ADRIENNE PACKER
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Debbi Krum’s son has struggled with drugs since he was a teen, but she testified Friday that she never saw him use methamphetamine after he was released from prison and moved into her home.

The assistant to Bellagio President and Chief Executive Officer Bobby Baldwin doesn’t believe her son, Kenny Krum, was a member of the Aryan Warriors prison gang. She doesn’t believe that he helped the gang manufacture and sell large quantities of meth.

Debbi Krum agreed to testify on behalf of her son in the government’s federal case against the Aryan Warriors because she believes he is innocent, she said. She noted that she hasn’t testified or tried to bail him out during past drug busts. She said when he is wrong, he should take responsibility.

“I hope he is released and has a chance to have a life,” she said. “He’s my son and I care about him.”

Defense attorneys began their case Friday, calling a handful of family members and employers of the defendants to the stand. The men are charged with engaging in criminal acts to further the aims of what prosecutors characterize as a violent gang.

Defendant Charles Gensemer’s mother, Sue Gensemer, said she doesn’t believe her son is part of the white supremacist gang, noting that he has been accepting of her long-term relationship with a woman.

She suggested that if Gensemer was making and selling methamphetamine on behalf of the brotherhood, as the government contends, he would have had enough money to visit her in California. The two haven’t seen each other in eight years, she said.

J.D. Hemphill said he hired Aryan Warrior Mike Yost to work for his Pahrump company, Four-Star Plastering. Hemphill said Yost, who is accused of helping to smuggle methamphetamine into the prison system, never appeared to be under the influence of drugs.

“He was a very hard worker,” Hemphill said. “He was out there every day before daylight and there until late.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen Bliss suggested there were two sides to the defendants: one that family members were exposed to and one of dedication to a gang that sought control of the Nevada prison system through violence, drug dealing and the corrupting of prison guards.

The government wrapped up its case on Thursday and the defense was clearly unimpressed.

All six defense attorneys moved to have the most serious charge, being part of a criminal enterprise, dismissed. Attorney Mark Bailus, who represents Ronnie Lee Jones, said the government’s evidence was “woefully inadequate.”

Bailus said his client wasn’t even a member of the Aryan Warriors when charges were brought against him.

“They are all individuals doing what they’re doing for themselves,” he said. “This is not a (criminal) conspiracy,” he said. “This is the federal government doing what the federal government does, overreaching.”

Bailus’ colleagues made similar arguments to U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson. They said prisoners typically migrate to their own race and form gangs to protect themselves from attacks. Chris Rasmussen, who represents defendant Robert Young, said the Aryan Warriors did drugs together and stood up for each other, but were not a criminal organization and did not run prison yards.

“That’s the way you survive at Ely State Prison,” Rasmussen said of joining a gang. “That’s the only way to survive at Ely State Prison.”

Dawson is expected to rule on the motion to dismiss next week.

Rasmussen also criticized the government’s witnesses, which included violent convicts, some of whom were former Aryan Warriors, who were offered plea agreements.

“That’s the government’s case,” he said. “Snitches, robbers, rapists and murderers.”

Accessory in Ku Klux Klan killing admits guilt, gets one-year sentence
by Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Times-Picayune
Thursday June 25, 2009, 12:46 PM

A member of a Bogalusa Ku Klux Klan group was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison after she pleaded guilty to being an accessory in the killing of an Oklahoma woman who reportedly tried to back out of a KKK initiation last year in St. Tammany Parish.

Almost timid, Danielle Jones, 24, quietly admitted giving authorities false information immediately after the murder of Klan recruit Cynthia Lynch, 43, who was shot to death Nov. 9 in a remote part of northeastern St. Tammany. Jones later acknowledged witnessing the shooting, according to the factual basis she admitted to during her plea at the parish courthouse in Covington.

Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the alleged imperial wizard of the Bogalusa Sons of Dixie Knights, is charged with second-degree murder in Lynch’s death. He remains in jail while awaiting trial.

Authorities have said Lynch was killed after she told Foster, 44, that she wanted to return home to Oklahoma.

State Judge Reginald “Reggie” Badeaux accepted Jones’s plea and sentenced her to the year of incarceration with credit for time served. In jail since her Nov. 11 arrest, Jones can qualify for immediate release due to good behavior. Her attorney, Mark Jolissaint, said that due to paperwork she likely wouldn’t be released for the next few days.

Jones made the guilty plea under the 1970 U.S. Supreme Court decision, North Carolina vs. Alford, a ruling that lets a defendant plead guilty if they thinks it’s in their best interest, but not admit involvement in the crime. Jolissaint maintained that Jones was innocent.

Assistant District Attorney Julie Knight prosecuted the case. Accessory after the fact carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $500 fine.

Jones initially told authorities that she knew nothing about a dead body or the possible shooter. She said she’d seen Lynch and Foster arguing, that they’d “fought and cursed and had problems,” but that the “only gunshots she had heard were from people hunting outside,” Knight said, reading the factual basis.

After authorities interviewed other alleged Sons of Dixie members, it became apparent that Jones was present during the shooting, Knight said.

In November, seven alleged Sons of Dixie members, all from the Bogalusa area, were booked on obstruction of justice charges, but the grand jury only indicted Shane Foster, 21, and Frank Stafford, 21, on those charges. The panel indicted Jones on the lesser accessory after the fact charge, and dropped all charges against the four others who had been arrested on obstruction charges.

On April 30, Stafford, 21, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and Badeaux sentenced him to four years in prison. Obstruction of justice carries a maximum of 40 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.

On April 21, Badeaux found Shane Foster incompetent to stand trial. Foster, 21, who is Chuck Foster’s son, was ordered to get tutoring from a court-appointed forensic coordinator in the St. Tammany Parish jail in an effort to restore his competency and make him ready for trial.

Shane Foster does not have a factual understanding of the law or its procedures, according to expert testimony. He is scheduled for an August 8 hearing, when Badeaux would reassess his mental competency.

Shane Foster and Stafford allegedly drove to a gas station near Bogalusa and asked a clerk how they could get bloodstains out of their clothes, part of an attempt to cover up the crime. Authorities have said that cover-up included digging a bullet out of Lynch’s body, burning her possessions and dumping her body into a ditch on Lock No. 3 Road near Sun, St. Tammany sheriff’s officials said.

Chuck Foster’s next scheduled hearing on the second-degree murder charge is scheduled for July 27 in front of state Judge Peter Garcia, but people familiar with the case speculate that he will not go to trial for at least several more months.

Former Northland KKK leader indicted in Arizona bombing
By MARK MORRIS The Kansas City Star

A federal grand jury in Arizona has indicted a former Northland Ku Klux Klan leader and his brother for allegedly mail-bombing a city of Scottsdale diversity office.

The arrest Thursday of Dennis Mahon and his twin brother, Daniel Mahon, in Illinois Thursday coincided with weapons charges against Robert Joos, a Powell, Mo., man, whom Dennis Mahon allegedly contacted the morning the bomb arrived at the Scottsdale Office of Diversity and Dialogue.

Though Joos was charged in Springfield, Mo., with being a felon in possession of firearms, he is not alleged to have participated in the Arizona mail-bombing.

Dennis Mahon is a former Northmoor resident and imperial dragon of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He was a familiar was a familiar figure in the Kansas City area in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989, he unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the Northmoor Board of Aldermen, vowing to keep the community “white.”

He also was involved in a skirmish over a public access channel of a Kansas City cable TV company. After a long battle, which included a lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of the Klan, his group produced one TV program that aired in 1990.

According to federal court records released this week, the Mahons long have been suspects in the Feb. 26, 2004, Scottsdale bombing, which injured three people. Prosecutors there accused Dennis Mahon of using his brother’s phone to call the Diversity and Dialogue office on Sept, 26, 2003, and leave a voice message stating that “the White Aryan Resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There’s a few white people who are standing up.”

Authorities began investigating Joos in 2005, when they noticed that Dennis Mahon’s phone was used in a string of calls the morning of the bombing, the first being to a cell phone registered to Joos at 7:11 a.m., according to court records.

Call to end racist threat

LINDA SMITH
July 07, 2009 08:45am

A PUBLIC campaign to stamp out racism in Tasmania should be run by the State Government, advocates say.

Multicultural Council of Tasmania chairman Davor Perovic said racial tensions were worsening in Tasmania and he regularly heard reports of people being bashed or threatened in racially motivated attacks.

Mr Perovic said he had been lobbying the Government for two years, without success, to start a statewide anti-racism campaign.

“The Tasmanian Government has been silent about racism for too long,” he said.

“We would like to see the Government make a public statement on where they stand on this issue.”

He said the campaign could start in schools and spread into the wider community.

Mr Perovic said although the recent murder of Chinese student Zhang “Tina” Yu had led to an outpouring of distress at attacks on overseas students, racial violence was not new.

“We’ve been aware of this for a number of years now,” he said.

“We do hear it frequently and it has got a lot worse in the last couple of years.

“People in the African community are being abused verbally by thugs who drive along and call them monkeys.

“There have been bashings and machete attacks and taxi drivers are being beaten.”

Mr Perovic said emerging technologies like Facebook had given racists a greater voice, with some sites dedicated to slandering visitors.

But he said this technology could also be used by the Government to help stamp out racism in Tasmania.

People of at least 70 nationalities lived in Tasmania, with a wide range of languages and religious beliefs.

“We need to do something before it gets worse,” he said.

Corrections and Consumer Protection Minister Lisa Singh said racism was not acceptable in Tasmania but there were more urgent issues than an anti-racism campaign.

“Proposals for a publicity campaign may have appeal but we need to be working through more immediate issues,” Ms Singh said.

“That will be achieved through a range of strategies in working with students, police and the community organisations to help create a safe and welcoming environment.”

She said the Government and police were working closely with the University of Tasmania to determine the best way to address racism and safety concerns.

‘Jena 6′ beating case wraps up with plea deal
By MARY FOSTER – Jun 27, 2009

JENA, La. (AP) — The Jena Six case, which once prompted a massive civil rights demonstration and drew international attention, saw the final chapter played out quietly.

Five neatly dressed young men answered “Yes Sir,” on Friday as state District Judge Tom Yeager asked them if they accepted the terms of a deal that included pleading no contest to misdemeanor simple battery.

The charges against the five — Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw — had previously been reduced from attempted murder to aggravated second-degree battery after they were accused of beating and kicking schoolmate Justin Barker.

Civil rights leaders railed against the harshness of the original charge, saying it was because the defendants were black and Barker was white.

The plea deal gave the defendants seven days probation, a $500 fine and court costs. Mychal Bell, the sixth defendant, had previously pleaded guilty to a second-degree battery charge and received an 18-month sentence.

“I just thank God that it’s all over,” said John Jenkins, Jones’ father. “It’s been a long, painful journey for everyone on both sides of this thing.”

Barker and his family and friends sat without expression through the hearing. Barker’s attorney said he has graduated and is now working in the oil fields. The family did not comment.

As part of the deal, one of the attorneys read a statement from the defendants in which they said they knew of nothing Barker had done to provoke the attack.

“To be clear, not one of us heard Justin use any slur or say anything that justified Mychal Bell attacking Justin nor did any of us see Justin do anything that would cause Mychal to react,” the statement said.

The statement also expressed sympathy for Barker and his family, and acknowledged the past two-and-a-half years had “caused Justin and his parents tremendous pain and suffering, much of which has gone unrecognized.”

None of the defendants spoke to reporters.

By pleading no contest, the five do not admit guilt but acknowledge prosecutors had enough evidence for a conviction. LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters said in a statement that he could have won convictions but wanted to end the matter for Barker.

All but Shaw were assessed $500 in court costs. The judge did not tack that punishment on to Shaw’s case because he stayed in jail for nearly seven months, unable to raise bail, following his initial arrest.

Each paid the fine and court costs immediately. The payment of restitution to Barker was also part of the deal, but the amount was not released. A lawsuit filed by Barker against the group was also settled Friday, though the terms were confidential.

The only member of the group to serve jail time was Bell, who pleaded guilty in December 2007 to second-degree battery and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Four of Friday’s defendants have graduated from high school, and all are attending or getting ready to attend college. Purvis has completed his first year and Bell is planning to attend college this fall. Beard is a senior in high school in Connecticut.

“They can move along with their lives,” said Bailey’s attorney, James Boren. “And because there are no felonies they can look forward to full lives ahead.”

The severity of the original charges brought widespread criticism and eventually led more than 20,000 people to converge in September 2007 on the tiny town of Jena for a major civil rights march. Some $275,000 was raised to hire a large defense team for the six, said Beard’s attorney, David Utter.

Racial tensions at Jena High School reportedly grew in the months before the attack. Several months prior to the attack, nooses were hung in a tree on the campus, sparking outrage in the black community. Residents said there were fights, but nothing too serious until December 2006 when Barker was attacked.

“Everybody pointed a finger at Jena during this, but this happens to African-American males across the country,” Utter said. “These young men were lucky that people cared and donated money so they could afford good attorneys. That made the difference.”

Aberdeen woman admits to racist remark
Court hears of ‘monkey’ comment

Published: 02/07/2009

A WOMAN was ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work for calling a man a “monkey” in Aberdeen.

Sheriff James Tierney told Janey O’Halloran her behaviour was “absolutely appalling” and that she now had a “very serious racist conviction”.

Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard Andrews Yalley, who described himself as Black African, was walking home in Aberdeen when he saw two women standing in a doorway.

One of the women was O’Halloran and she called him a “monkey”, the court heard.

Mr Yalley turned to O’Halloran and asking her if she had called him a “monkey”. She replied “yes”.

The 23-year-old, whose address was given in court papers as 60b Baker Street, Aberdeen, admitted acting in a racially-aggravated manner and making racial remarks.

She committed the offence on September 7, 2007, on Aberdeen’s Back Wynd. Defence agent Iain Hingston told the court O’Halloran thought Mr Yalley had previously assaulted her brother.

Sheriff James Tierney accepted O’Halloran had taken steps to change her lifestyle and said he would not send her to prison.

He ordered O’Halloran to carry out community work and put her on probation for a year.

O’Halloran must also complete a racial awareness course