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.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 22-year-old Georgian national, pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to soliciting hate crimes and transporting an explosive device.
According to the original indictment, Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” was planning a mass attack in New York in which someone dressed as Santa Claus would have distributed poisoned candy to minority children and supplied the tainted product to Jewish schools…