Other plaintiffs’ lawyers, including those in the Charlottesville civil case, also have secured default judgments against Anglin. A federal judge entered a default judgment against Anglin after he failed to appear for a deposition. The whereabouts of two defendants, Andrew Anglin and Robert “Azzmador” Ray, are unknown.Īnglin, founder of a neo-Nazi website called The Daily Stormer, has not paid any portion of a August 2019 judgment for orchestrating an anti-Semitic harassment campaign against a Montana real estate agent’s Jewish family. After the verdict was announced on Tuesday, Spencer said he now views the alt-right as a “totally dysfunctional institution with dysfunctional people” and claims he has grown disgusted “with a lot of it.” Spencer popularized the term “alt-right” to describe a loosely connected fringe movement of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists. He said the case has been “extremely expensive” and a “huge burden” for him. Months before the trial, Richard Spencer, one of the most well-known white nationalists in the country, told a judge his notoriety has made it difficult for him to raise money for his defense against the “financially crippling” lawsuit. He said the plaintiffs’ lawyers who sued him “just wasted $20 million to try and play Whac-A-Mole with public figureheads.” Heimbach said he is a single father to two young sons, works at a factory and lives paycheck to paycheck. The men had argued over Heimbach’s alleged affair with Parrott’s wife, according to court documents.
Their neo-Nazi group fell apart after Heimbach was arrested in 2018 on charges that he assaulted Parrott, his wife’s stepfather. You can’t get blood from a stone,” said Matthew Heimbach, who co-founded the far-right Traditionalist Worker Party with fellow defendant Matthew Parrott. And most of the defendants claim they will never have the money needed to pay off the judgments against them.
At least three of the far-right extremist groups named as defendants have dissolved. Many of the defendants are in prison, in hiding or have dropped out of the white nationalist movement. But whether they will be able to collect a significant chunk of that money remains to be seen. Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over the violence at a deadly rally in Charlottesville in 2017 won a $26 million judgment for the injuries and trauma they endured. Collecting $26M from white nationalists won't be easyīy Denise LaVoie and Michael Kunzelman | Associated Press