Neo-Nazi Bill White Back in the Real Estate Business

Neo-Nazi Bill White Back in the Real Estate Business
Posted in Neo-Nazi by Leah Nelson on July 27, 2011

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Neo-Nazi Internet gossip and budding real estate magnate
Bill White has had a busy couple of months. Just recently
out of prison after spending over two years for making
various threats, White has already contributed several
articles to the American Free Press, an anti-Semitic weekly
founded by Holocaust denier Willis Carto.

And now, according to correspondence obtained by Hatewatch,
he is wading back into the real estate business – apparently
going back to his pre-prison routine of buying up cheap
properties, renovating them, and renting them out for more.

Once the head of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist
Workers Party, in December 2009 a federal jury found White
guilty of threatening several people through intimidating
phone calls and internet postings. He was sentenced to 2 ½
years in prison at an April 2010 hearing. In January 2011,
White was found guilty in another case of posting personal
information on his website about the jury foreman in the
trial of another white supremacist. A federal judge threw
out that conviction three months later on First Amendment
grounds, and White was released April 20.

In mid-July, he posted an advertisement on Craigslist
seeking a property manager and real estate manager in
Roanoke, Va. Hatewatch has obtained a copy of the message
White sent to those who responded:

“First, I am ‘the’ Bill White that people like to make noise
about,” he wrote. “If this is a problem for you, let me know
and I am not offended. Much if not most of what you have
likely read about me is untrue, but I have no desire to
engage in a discussion over it.” The rest of the email is a
job description and information about the company. White
says he represents a group of investors who, starting with a
handful of properties, hope over the next two years to put
up $10 million and buy 100 or more buildings.

White is no stranger to the real estate game. He began
buying up properties in 2004, accumulating houses and
apartment buildings in a largely black neighborhood for what
he called his “ghetto improvement project.” His reported
pattern of improving the distressed properties, raising
rents, and, often, booting out original residents who could
no longer afford to stay, led the local Legal Aid Society to
file complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. Tenants at the time also claimed White
walked around their neighborhood armed with a shotgun and
tried to intimidate them by saying the Klan was coming to
“regulate” the area.

The new company described in his email is called “J Evola
Group, LLC” – presumably in honor of Julius Evola, an
Italian Nazi philosopher obsessed with the pre-Christian
origins of Indo-European culture whose racial theories were
adopted and codified by Mussolini in 1938. Calling for a
“Great Holy War” to battle national and ideological enemies,
Evola exerted a significant influence on a generation of
militant neo-fascist youth in postwar Italy. Among his
protégés were leaders of right-wing terrorist organizations
linked to numerous bomb attacks from the 1960s to