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Article: Bond denied in alleged plot to kill judge Close Hale aide was feeding information to the FBI for years
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 24, 2003
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Matt Hale, the racist reverend of his World Church of the Creator,
went to great lengths to hide his conversations with members. He met
in the street to avoid hidden recording devices. He carefully phrased
e-mails, fearing someone was looking over his shoulder. He confided
only in his closest lieutenants.
And so he could smile only a wry smile Thursday when it was
revealed in court that his right-hand man, a member who headed his
security, had been informing on him to the FBI for four years and had
provided the information that got him charged with plotting to kill
U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.
Hale shook his head and rolled his eyes when prosecutors revealed
that an informant ...