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Leo Vincelette Felton (born 1970,
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white supremacist White supremacy or white supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to those of other Race (human classification), races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any Power (social and polit ...
of African American descent who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in
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to attack Jewish-Americans. 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. His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.


Criminal activities

Felton spent 11 years (1990–2001) in prison for the assault of a taxi driver during a
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incident. His prison sentence was extended for attacking two black inmates. In prison, he became an organizer for
white supremacist White supremacy or white supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to those of other Race (human classification), races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any Power (social and polit ...
groups, organizing book reviews and exercise while obscuring his ancestry. He found inspiration from the
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and read
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 Out of prison and married, Felton began an affair with Erica Chase, a 21-year-old white supremacist. Felton robbed a bank with a friend from prison and forged money in order to buy materials to create a
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. It is unclear what the target was to be. An attendant at a donut shop spotted a
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$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. Felton was released from federal custody on December 12, 2020.


Personal life

Felton changed his last name from Felton to Oladimu in 2008. He is an
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See also

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