Lemley, an Army veteran, insisted the men were just talking. Lemley and Mathews were members of the Base, a violently racist and anti-Semitic extremist group, and they participated in firearm trainings with the group, according to the Justice Department. District Judge Theodore Chuang noted in his sentencing Thursday, The Guardian reported.Ĭonversations between Brian Mark Lemley Jr., 35, and Patrik Jordan Mathews, 29, included plans to murder a Virginia lawmaker, wreck power and rail lines, and free Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. government and murder lawmakers expressed in conversations captured on FBI surveillance tapes, U.S. The men merited the enhancement due to the “passion” and “virulence” to take down the U.S.
A Maryland judge applied a “terrorism enhancement” to prison sentences meted out to two members of a neo-Nazi group, upping their terms to nine years each.
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