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A white supremacist couple were found guilty Friday of plotting to blow up Jewish and black landmarks around Boston in what prosecutors said was a scheme to foment “racial holy war.”
A federal jury deliberated for two days before convicting Leo Felton, the 31-year-old mixed-race son of civil rights activists, and his girlfriend, Erica Chase, 22.
They were arrested in April 2001 when an off-duty police officer spotted Chase passing a counterfeit $20 bill.
Investigators discovered that Felton was making the phony money to help fund the plan.
“Their plan was to ignite a racial holy war . . . that would promote chaos among the races,” prosecutor Emily Schulman told the jury.
