Leo Felton

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Leo Vincelette Felton (born 1970, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American white supremacist of African American descent{{cite web|last1=Haskell|first1=David D.|title=Supremacist of sentenced in bomb plot|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/12/11/Supremacist-sentenced-in-bomb-plot/49221039649706/|website=upi.com|publisher=UPI|access-date=30 July 2016|date=11 December 2002|quote=Though Felton is a self-described white supremacist, his father is a black architect and his mother a white civil rights activist.}} who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in Boston to attack Jewish-Americans, colloquially referred to as the 2002 white supremacist terror plot. Felton was released from prison in 2019 after serving 17 years.

Early life

Leo Felton's father, Calvin Felton (b. 1930), was a black architect, while his mother, Corinne Vincelette (b. 1931), was a white voice and diction professor who became involved in the civil rights movement.[http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=76 SPLCenter.org: From the Belly of the Beast] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050903094127/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=76 |date=September 3, 2005 }} His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.{{cite web|last1=Moser|first1=Bob|title=Leo Felton's Prison Plot, Aryan Unit One, Hits the Streets|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2002/leo-felton’s-prison-plot-aryan-unit-one-hits-streets|website=splcenter.org|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=30 July 2016|date=18 December 2002}}

Criminal activities

Felton spent 11 years (1990–2001) in prison for the assault of a taxi driver{{cite web|agency=Associated Press|title=Prison for Bomb Plot Supremacist|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-12-na-supremacist12-story.html|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=30 July 2016|date=12 December 2002}}{{cite web|title=Two with Ties to White Supremacy Suspected in Plot to Bomb Boston Sites|url=http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/domestic-extremism-terrorism/c/two-with-ties-to-white-supremacy-plotted-to-bomb-boston-sites.html|website=adl.org|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|access-date=30 July 2016|date=20 June 2001}} during a road rage incident. His prison sentence was extended for attacking two black inmates.Terror suspect no racist, supremacist, father says Boston Globe/July 4, 2001

By Farah Stockman In prison, he became an organizer for white supremacist groups, organizing book reviews and exercise while obscuring his ancestry. He found inspiration from the White Order of Thule and read Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, which led him to believe that race was spiritual instead of biological.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060614133251/http://turnitdown.newcomm.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=42 Turn It Down]}}{{cite news |last=Tough |first=Paul |date=2003-05-23 |title=The Black White Supremacist |work=New York Times Magazine |page=42}} ([https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFDA103EF936A15756C0A9659C8B63&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=6])

Out of prison and married, Felton began an affair with Erica Chase, a 21-year-old white supremacist.US v. Chase and Felton 01-10198-NG, Eastern Dist. Mass. Felton robbed a bank with a friend from prison and forged money in order to buy materials to create a fertilizer bomb. It is unclear what the target was to be. An attendant at a donut shop spotted a counterfeit $20 Chase tried to pass her. She alerted an off-duty Boston police officer, who then arrested Felton and Chase. Felton was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2002 for bank robbery, conspiracy to commit bank robbery and other crimes.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}

Felton was released from federal custody on December 12, 2020.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

Personal life

Felton changed his last name from Felton to Oladimu in 2008.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} He is an Odinist.{{cite web |last1=Carless |first1=Will |date=25 May 2017 |title=An ancient Nordic religion is inspiring white supremacist terror/ |url=http://revealnews.org |access-date=24 July 2018}}