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By Shira Hanau<\/p>\n

A New Jersey man convicted of conspiring with members of a white supremacist group to vandalize synagogues in the Midwest was\u00a0sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison, according to NJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richard Tobin, 20, was charged in federal court with conspiracy against the rights of minority citizens, a charge that can carry a maximum sentence of 10 years. Tobin was\u00a0accused of plotting with members of the neo-Nazi group \u201cThe Base\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to vandalize properties belonging to Jewish or Black groups in 2019 when he was 18 years old.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials became aware of Tobin after a number of synagogues in the Midwest were vandalized in 2019. Tobin had dubbed the plot \u201cKristallnacht\u201d after the 1938 night of terror in Nazi Germany in which synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed and nearly one hundred Jews were murdered.<\/p>\n

Tobin was alleged to have planned the attacks and directed other members of the group located in the Midwest on how to execute the attacks from his home in Brooklawn, New Jersey. According to the Anti-Defamation League,\u00a0The Base is a neo-Nazi group that \u201cembraces Hitlerian ideology\u201d and \u201cenvisions a coming race war.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Tobin\u00a0pleaded guilty to the charges earlier this year,<\/a>\u00a0saying he was enraged by the site of Black shoppers at a nearby mall and felt \u201ctriggered by the state of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rachael A. Honig, New Jersey\u2019s acting U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, celebrated the sentence in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cRichard Tobin encouraged hateful acts of violence against individuals and their houses of worship, based on their religion or the color of their skin,\u201d Honig said in a statement, according to\u00a0NJ.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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