{"id":42985,"date":"2025-11-17T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42985\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:35:04","slug":"man-admits-plot-to-have-nyc-santa-poison-jews-racial-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42985\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits plot to have NYC Santa poison Jews, racial minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"fud5x\">A man federal prosecutors say leads a neo-Nazi organization called the Maniac Murder Cult pleaded guilty Monday to planning hate crimes against Jewish people and racial minorities.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"44mc7\">Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22, pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to soliciting hate crimes and transporting an explosive device.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3cl5a\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/georgian-national-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-mass-casualty-attack-new-york\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">original indictment<\/a>, Chkhikvishvili, also known as \u201cCommander Butcher,\u201d was planning a mass attack in New York in which someone dressed as Santa Claus would have distributed poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d3abd\">He faces up to 40 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in March. Prosecutors are recommending a sentence between 14 and 17 years.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"589j\">Chkhikvishvili on Monday admitted to soliciting violent hate crimes against racial minorities, and said he would \u201clike to apologize to those communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man federal prosecutors say leads a neo-Nazi organization called the Maniac Murder Cult pleaded guilty Monday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-42985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}