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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nMinadeo, 40, runs an antisemitic hate group called the Goyim Defense League \u2014 its name and acronym serving as ugly sendups of the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. After a\u00a0headline-making summer, Minadeo has had a run of bad luck. The meme-savvy neo-Nazi has spent the past month in jail on a littering charge. While he\u2019s been in the clink, his favorite social media tool for\u00a0harassing young people\u00a0with hate speech,\u00a0Omegle, has been\u00a0shut down. To top it off, on Nov. 29, Minadeo faces a new trial, one that could see him locked up for as long as a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minadeo has three main strategies for spreading hate. The first is by paper:\u00a0Distributing antisemitic fliers\u00a0that promote perverse lies, including that Jews should be blamed for everything from the \u201cCOVID agenda\u201d and \u201cDisney child grooming\u201d to \u201cTrump\u2019s campaign funding\u201d and \u201cabortion and hookup culture.\u201d The second is digital: Livestreaming on his own network, GoyimTV, where Minadeo broadcasts as a character called \u201cHandsome Truth.\u201d The third is by marching: In September, Minadeo and his loyalists\u00a0joined forces\u00a0with a hardcore neo-Nazi group called Blood Tribe, taking over an Orlando-area freeway overpass. The mob of hate demonstrators performed Hitler salutes and shouted threats like \u201cJews get the rope!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first strategy has gotten Minadeo in significant legal trouble. At the beginning of November, Minadeo was found guilty by a jury in Florida of \u201cattempted littering\u201d related to distributing his antisemitic hate flyers in West Palm Beach this past March. According to the warrant <\/a>for his arrest, Minadeo was throwing the fliers from the back of a U-Haul \u201conto the public street, in the swale, and into residents\u2019 yards.\u201d The cop on the scene recovered only a few fliers from the street, so Minaeo was charged with \u201cattempted littering\u201d based on the stockpile still in the U-Haul, described in court as \u201cover 700 bags with white paper and brown pellets, weighing at 47.5 pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In court, Minadeo made the argument that his foul flyers were protected free speech. \u201cMr. Minadeo was delivering flyers with a political message \u2026 packaged \u2026 in a manner that keeps its contents sealed and prevents that package from flying away,\u201d his attorney wrote <\/a>. \u201cAt no point did Mr. Minadeo distribute garbage or trash \u2026 Despite anyone\u2019s opinion as to what was on the flyers, these flyers are political and religious in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The state of Florida countered with a motion <\/a>that insisted the paper in baggies was trash \u2014 in both a literal and figurative sense: \u201cPaper is clearly defined as what can constitute litter in the statute,\u201d the state attorney argued. \u201cAdditionally, the paper is not political or religious in nature, the paper contains unsubstantiated claims attacking a specific religion and are correctly classified as trash having no true political essence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, Minadeo\u2019s First Amendment hail mary didn\u2019t convince the judge. The trial went forward and Minadeo was convicted on the misdemeanor \u2014 and sentenced to jail, beginning Nov. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minadeo\u2019s experience \u2014 as documented on his Gab account by a guest poster named \u201cNed,\u201d who has been coordinating with the hate leader \u2014 has been miserable. Minadeo spent his first week-plus in quarantine. \u201cHe\u2019s in 1 cell with 5 guys and 1 toilet,\u201d Ned reported. Nonetheless, Ned added, Minadeo had spent his time \u201cred pilling everyone he can\u201d about the \u201cfilthy\u201d targets of his hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before long, odd handwritten legal filings began showing up in the court record. On Nov. 17, someone filed an \u201c Extraordinary Emergency <\/a>\u201d appeal arguing that \u201cJon is jailed for throwing political newspapers.\u201d The signature line of the filing is not a lawyer\u2019s, however. It reads instead: \u201cHeld Hostage.\u201d A similar filing claiming \u201cindigent status\u201d for Minadeo is also signed \u201c Held Hostage <\/a>.\u201d Minadeo\u2019s lawyer, Sarah Wright, could not explain the documents, telling Rolling Stone : \u201cI have no idea what those are. I certainly did not file anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The filings, in fact, were made on Minadeo\u2019s behalf by one of his GDL followers who spells his name \u201cColby-A: Frank.\u201d Reached by phone, Frank said he\u2019s not a lawyer and refused to answer whether Minadeo had requested he make the filings, saying only, \u201cHe wants my help for sure.\u201d Frank then accused this reporter of trying to \u201cblackmail\u201d him before insisting \u201cyou\u2019re acting extremely Jewish,\u201d and concluding the call with a \u201cfuck you!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minadeo will spend Thanksgiving behind bars. He\u2019s expected to be released on Nov. 25. His Gab account promises that Minadeo will perform a livestream on Nov. 26. But that show won\u2019t feature the usual exploits of \u201cHandsome Truth\u201d now that Omegle no longer exists. The social network \u2014 which operates like Chat Roulette, linking up strangers for chance face-to-face video encounters \u2014 was shut down on Nov. 8 amid an avalanche of litigation claiming the network exposed children to predators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minadeo\u2019s use of the platform was highly controversial. While filming his livestream for a neo-Nazi audience, Minadeo would fire up Omegle, seeking to link with random teens, and even children. He\u2019d reel them in, initially, by posing as a friendly drag artist. But Minadeo would quickly drop the act \u2014 and either attempt to groom the young people into flashing Hitler salutes and using slurs, or heap that kind of abuse on the young people, hurling the N-word and anti-gay slurs at them. Minadeo\u2019s GoyimTV followers found this act funny, and would reward his exploits with cash donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/110623-west-palm-beach-distributing-antisemitic-flyers-6549289006026.jpg?resize=970%2C545&ssl=1\")
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