Neo-Nazi Leader Gets 15 Years for Recruiting Violent Attacks, Including a Santa Poison Plot
He was convicted of recruiting attacks and sharing bomb and poison manuals as prosecutors said his group inspired violence beyond New York.
- On Wednesday, a Brooklyn federal court sentenced Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 22-year-old Georgian national, to 15 years in prison for soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence.
- Chkhikvishvili, known as 'Commander Butcher,' led the 'Maniac Murder Cult,' an international neo-Nazi extremist group also called MKY, and was extradited from Moldova in May 2025.
- Chkhikvishvili directed an undercover FBI employee to target Jewish children in New York City with poisoned candy and sent detailed manuals about creating lethal poisons including ricin.
- Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg stated Chkhikvishvili 'repeatedly called for the murder of innocent civilians,' while the NYPD and FBI prevented the planned attacks.
- Prosecutors linked the group to an August 2024 stabbing in Turkey and a January 2025 school shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, where the attacker cited Chkhikvishvili's manifesto.
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Neo-Nazi, known as ‘commander butcher,’ gets 15 years for plot to poison Jewish kids in Brooklyn with candy
A Georgian national known as “Commander Butcher,” who admitted to plotting a mass-casualty attack targeting Jews and minorities in New York City, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Cleveland Jewish NewsNeo-Nazi known as ‘Commander Butcher’ gets 15 years over plots targeting Jews in NYC
A Georgian neo-Nazi leader known as “Commander Butcher” was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for soliciting hate crimes tied to plots targeting Jews and other minorities in New York City, including a scheme to poison Jewish children. Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22, a leader of a white supremacist extremist group known as the Maniac Murder Cult, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn after pleading guilty last year to soliciting hate …
Mikhail Chkhikvishvili, leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi terrorist network, wanted to have Jewish children killed in New York.
FBI thwarts disturbing “killer Santa” plot
The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to recruit others to commit violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities, including one plot that would have involved dressing as Santa Claus to hand out poisoned candy to children. Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 22-year-old from the country of Georgia who goes by the nickname “Commander Butcher,” was sentenced by a federal judge in Brooklyn on …
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