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An investigation into illegal gun sales at Camp Lejeune uncovers a neonazi paramilitary group plotting to cause a blackout in the Pacific Northwest, assassinate the governor of Oregon, terrorize Black Lives Matter activists, and start a race war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	For decades, the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold, with law enforcement seemingly powerless to intervene.
	It uses terror to extort people.
	But the murder of Carmichaelanti marked the beginning of the end.
	It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.
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	I'm your host, Teresa.
	We'll be bringing you different ghost stories each week straight from the person who experienced it firsthand.
	Some will be unsettling, some unnerving, some even downright terrifying.
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	In April of 2020, we were all talking about what we were going to buy with our $1,200 COVID stimulus check.
	I vaguely recall making the decision to go ahead and bite the bullet and buy a toaster.
	No more preheating the whole oven just to toast a little bread in my house.
	Life's too short not to enjoy a crisp hot sandwich from time to time and starting to feel like life might be even shorter.
	It was a fraught time.
	We all cope differently.
	But about 300 miles south of where I was obsessively reading reviews for small appliances, an unnamed witness was chatting with an acquaintance at Camp Lejeune.
	He was thinking about using his check to buy a handgun at a nearby store in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
	And he was far from the only one with this idea.
	The FBI reported a 20% increase in gun sales over the previous year during those early months of the pandemic.
	I guess when Americans get scared, they turn to guns, even when that doesn't really make any sense.
	But everybody wanted a gun, even beyond the average American lust for guns.
	So lines were long, and prices were high, and paperwork was backlogged.
	The acquaintance our unnamed witness was talking to about the purchase said, Oh no, you don't want to do that.
	I can get you a great deal on a Glock 19 with no serial number.
	For just $1,500, you'll even get a silencer.
	Before discussing the details of the deal, Liam Collins placed his phone inside of the microwave.
	For those of you who only have normal friends and have never been asked to put your cell phone in the microwave, the idea is that the appliance acts as a Faraday cage, preventing the device from transmitting a signal of any kind, so it can't be used to monitor a conversation you don't want the government to know about.
	I'm not sure this technique is terribly worthwhile.
	I mean, the government can get a warrant to track your phone, to wiretap your phone.
	But I've never read a case where a warrant was obtained to use someone's cell phone as a passive listening device.
	I'm sure it's possible.
	I just don't know how likely it is that the government is using your phone this way.
	But it's a common enough idea in certain circles.
	And with his phone safely stowed in the microwave, Liam Collins started cooking something a little hotter than ramen.
	We opened the door to the investigation that revealed a neo-Nazi terror plot to kick off a race war.
	I'm Molly Conger, and this is Weird Little Guys.
	I usually start the process of sorting out a story by making a timeline.
	Chronological order isn't always the best way to tell a story, but it's the best way I've found to understand how the pieces fit together so I can try to make sense of it for us.
	I lay out every scrap of information I can find in the court record and existing reporting by other journalists, and all the odds and ends I can scrape together from the vast corners of the internet.
	After I published a piece last year about a different weird little guy, he actually reached out to a journalist I know who had an existing source relationship with him and asked, How did she know that thing about my grandmother?
	Well, it's my job to know.
	I spent an entire day finding county court records for everyone you've ever met and read a few dozen issues of your hometown newspaper from the early 90s.
	I'm kind of a weird little guy too, I guess.
	And I can get a little carried away.
	I mean, I'm deeply committed to placing everything in its proper context, but sometimes I've got four generations of a guy's family tree mapped out, I'm looking at his cousin's wedding photos on Instagram, and I've got a copy of his grandparents' marriage license saved to my desktop, and I realize I've lost the plot a little.
	And this case really complicated my process.
	With five defendants, three superseding indictments, and four years in court, it's hard to find a single beginning for the timeline.
	So rather than digging myself into a hole I can't get back out of, let's just start in 2015, shortly before these five men's lives began to intertwine.
	In 2015, Liam Yawn Montgomery Collins, Justin Wade Hermanson, and Joseph Marino were all still in high school.
	Marino would soon have a chance encounter with a National Guard recruiter in his high school cafeteria.
	Collins was doing a little modeling, walking in a New York Fashion Week show for the Japanese designer North Hooliwood the summer before his junior year.
	Marine Lance Corporal Jordan Duncan was living in Latvia, studying Russian at the Defense Language Institute's Foreign Language Center.
	And Paul James Kryszczuk Jr., not to be confused with his father, Paul Sr., a retired Suffolk County police officer, started more than 50 pornographic films that year, mostly in a genre called facial abuse, despite telling an industry publication the year before that he was getting out of the business, calling the work he did in facial abuse the most degrading job he'd ever done.
	Now, I'm not here to judge anybody's private life.
	I mean, beyond the premise of the show, I guess, which is kind of me passing some judgment on these guys' lives, but as far as consensual adult film work, as long as everyone's safe and doing work they've chosen to do, that's not my business.
	That's not what we're here to figure out.
	But personally, I'm not very knowledgeable about pornography.
	I fear I may be outing myself as kind of a prude here, but I wanted to figure out if this was actually as gross as it sounds, or if it just seemed gross to me because it's not my cup of tea.
	So I had to do some research here that I really wish I had not.
	I read a few industry blogs, some forums for both performers and consumers, some interviews with performers who worked in the genre and with this particular studio, and some legal documents.
	According to a definition used by the examining attorney in an official decision by the U.S.
	Trademark and Patent Office denying a trademark application for the term, facial abuse is the act of sexually humiliating your partner by abusing and degrading her face during rough oral sex by holding her head deep on your genitalia, slapping her face, and talking to her in a degrading manner during the process.
	And that's the nicest way to describe what I saw.
	The company seeking that trademark, D&E Media, is listed as the production company behind 192 of the 385 credits listed on the Internet Adult Film Database profile for Paulie Harker, the alias Kryszczak performed under for 13 years.
	I regret every second I spent finding out more about this.
	I know I said I'd like to know everything about a guy before I start writing, but I don't actually need to see him naked, and I really didn't expect to see him pour a dog bowl full of a woman's own vomit over her face.
	This is, unfortunately, not the first time my research has led me to see an aspiring terrorist's penis, but it is, without a doubt, the worst.
	Again, I don't want to put my own moral judgment on this aspect of things.
	I'm not saying that a guy with a kink that makes my stomach hurt is necessarily evil.
	So I really did some extra digging here, and I found several women who had done work with D&E Media, and with Paul Kryszczak specifically.
	I had really hoped, as I was gritting my teeth through the videos I found, that the women were just phenomenal actors.
	That they were putting on a convincing show of being terrified, of being unable to breathe.
	I understand there's a market for that kind of thing.
	I hoped that they'd all agreed ahead of time that she would only be pretending to sob, and what looked like her desperately trying to get the man to stop was only scripted drama.
	And maybe that's the case for some of the videos.
	But several women have come forward over the years to say that was not their experience with D&D media.
	In 2011, D&E released a facial abuse scene between Kryszczuk and a woman performing under the name Clara Bow.
	On the forum adult DVD talk, even fans of the genre were unsettled, with one user writing, They were pretty rough on her, even for FA.
	Multiple and hard slaps to the face prolonged upside-down BJs both over the shoulder and on the couch, and not one but two body slams.
	I am sad she even took it for five minutes, let alone ten.
	Another user responded, The editing was weird.
	They must have had to cut a lot of stuff out so it wouldn't look criminal.
	I noticed her eyes were closed for the most part in the second half.
	I wonder if he told her to do that to hide the bloodshot eye she had on her blog.
	Claire herself replied to the thread back in 2011, posting, To be honest, I don't know if I can look at it without dredging up the fucked up feelings it gave me.
	I'm all for some rough sex.
	I was happy with my scene for Public Disgrace and I can't wait for Princess Donna to get back to the USA so I can get in on bound gang bangs.
	But facial abuse was exactly what they say in the title.
	Abuse with a facial at the end.
	So this isn't just a woman who is regretful about her time in the industry or someone who showed up to shoot in a genre she was inexperienced with.
	She's shot BDSM and kink content.
	People are getting hurt for real, she wrote in 2011.
	It's not the same as kink or typical BDSM.
	In 2023, she spoke again about the experience with journalist Paul Mulholland.
	She told Mulholland that there was a agreed-upon tap-out signal if she needed to stop for any reason.
	But when she tried to stop the scene, she was ignored.
	I tapped his thighs because I couldn't breathe anymore and he didn't care.
	He actually grabbed the back of my head and pulled me closer and I had to, from kneeling, push on his thighs, get my feet underneath me and literally launch my entire body weight backward to get off of him.
	They didn't cut this from the video.
	Paul Kryszczuk, covered in distinctive tattoos, can be seen ignoring Bo's attempt to end the scene as the blood vessels in her eyes burst.
	A woman who performs as Felicity Feline says the videos she did for D&E Media are her greatest regret of her nine years in the industry, and she's made several videos about the violent shoots and the subsequent harassment and coercion from the director.
	Though she doesn't name him, both of the credits on her Internet Adult Film Database profile for D&E shoots are videos starring opposite Kryszczuk.
	And that's what their goal is.
	They want to completely ruin a woman on camera.
	And they will do anything in their power, legally, to do it.
	Maybe they overstep the legal boundaries at points, but that's to be determined by someone in law, because I don't want to go there.
	In other videos I sincerely regret watching, Krysha chokes and slaps a Black performer, berating her and calling her racial slurs as she sobs.
	If her experience was anything like Clara's or Felicity's or any of the other women who've come forward about this company, she's not acting.
	So that's who Paul was before all of this starts.
	His last pornographic film was released in 2018, so it seems likely he stopped shooting porn in 2017, which is about when he made the career switch to illegally manufacturing firearms for guys he met on a Nazi message board.
	In 2016, when Liam Collins was a senior at New Providence High School in a northern New Jersey suburb, he started posting on Iron March.
	The forum first appeared online in 2011, launched by a Russian nationalist named Alisher Mukhitnadov.
	And in its six years online, it was an incubator for neo-Nazi ideology around the world.
	Fascist organizations like National Action in the UK, Atomwaffen in the US, Scytus in Lithuania, and Antipodean Resistance in Australia were born on the forum.
	These and other organizations grew and networked, recruiting online posters into real-life terror cells.
	The site disappeared without explanation one day in November 2017.
	The webmaster for the Daily Stormer at the time, Andrew Auernheimer, perhaps better known as Weave, speculated that there was international pressure to take the site offline after an incident in Florida earlier that year.
	Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell was arrested when police found a stash of explosives and bomb-making supplies in his garage.
	The police were only in his garage because his roommate, fellow Atomwaffen member Devon Arthurs, and Iron March user TheViceOfVulfa, told investigators that Russell planned to target infrastructure and synagogues.
	And Arthurs was only talking to the police because he'd been arrested for murdering their other two roommates, Andrew Onyshuk and Jeremy Himmelman, in the apartment the four shared.
	Now, obviously the double murder and the bombing plot are the bigger deal here, but I do just want to point out that Devin should have put a little more effort into the screen name.
	These guys love cosplaying the whole Hitler vibe using German words in their handles, but if he's one white wolf, it'd be Der Weiße Wolf.
	If he's multiple white wolves, it's Die Weißen Wölfe.
	The Weiße Wölfe isn't anything.
	I guess it doesn't matter because it'll be 25 years to life before he logs back on.
	Other former posters on the Terrorism Training Forum believed the Russian government pressured Mukhinadov to take the site offline because users were recruiting and raising money for the Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary group, Azov Battalion, which is considered a terrorist organization by the Russian government.
	A 2020 investigation by the Russian Language Office of BBC News doesn't really support that theory.
	Mukhinadov was still living in Moscow and was never charged by the Russian government, something they would presumably do if they felt he was to blame for funding Azov.
	Both Mukhinadov and a spokesperson for Azov declined to speak with reporters from the BBC.
	So, despite speculation from his fans that he'd been murdered by Russian intelligence agents, he was alive enough in 2020 to hang up on a reporter.
	But before the site disappeared, it was a place for lonely Nazis to connect.
	And in September of 2016, when Liam Collins was starting his senior year of high school, he was already recruiting members for a group project, as he called it.
	As Niesgoda, he exchanged messages with a user named Panzerleiter, a 23-year-old just finishing up a three-year stint in the U.S.
	Army.
	Collins said he was forming a group that would eventually become a paramilitary organization.
	He planned to join the Marines after high school to get the training he would need to lead the group and was looking to recruit members with military and policing experience.
	I guess Panzerleiter passed the teen's vibe check because he became a member of the fledgling group.
	A few years later, when he was outed as an Iron March poster and lost his job at the Lafayette, Indiana Police Department, Joseph Sakarek would cooperate with federal investigators and testify before the grand jury that indicted Collins.
	The Corps group really came together when Collins, as Niazgoda, started corresponding with Paul Kryszczuk, who was posting on Iron March as Visions from Patmos, in early 2017.
	Collins, still a high school senior, recruited the adult film actor to the crew.
	Just a few months later, the growing group took a camping trip together, finally getting offline and meeting in real life to discuss their plans for the future.
	By August, Collins had joined the Marine Corps and moved down to Camp Lejeune.
	On Iron March, he posted that he had a tight-knit crew of ex-mil and security that he was training with, going on hikes and doing live fire exercises.
	Collins posted that he couldn't really get into specifics online, writing that it, it's an inner circle thing, but it will serve its purpose when the time comes.
	Think of it as a modern day SS.
	Kryszczak laid out his theory of operations in a post on Iron March in early 2017.
	The first order of business is knocking down the system, mounting it and smashing its face until it has been beaten past the point of death.
	Eventually, we will have to bring the rifles out and go to work.
	We will have to hit the streets and strike as many blows to the remaining power structure as we can to keep it on the ropes.
	Forget the pawns and go for the knights, kings, and queens.
	Second order of business is the seizing of territory and the balkanization of North America, buying property in remote areas that are already predominantly white and right-leaning, networking with locals, training, farming, and stockpiling.
	Essentially, we are laying the framework for a guerrilla organization and a takeover of local government and industry.
	Start buying property now in the types of regions mentioned above, and get to work on building your own group.
	As time goes on in this conflict, we will expand our territories and slowly take back the land that is rightfully ours.
	As we build our forces and our numbers, we will move into the urban areas and clear them out.
	This will be a ground war very reminiscent of Iraq, as we will essentially be facing an insurgent force made up of criminals and gang members.
	And he meant it.
	You don't have to give these guys credit for anything, but you can't say he didn't mean it.
	A lot of guys talk like this online, but they don't all start an illegal amateur gunsmithing operation and move to Idaho.
	It's not entirely clear when Paul Kryszczak started making his own guns.
	The earliest payment listed across the slew of indictments is a transfer from one of his co-conspirators, Joseph Marino, to Paul Kryszczak in September of 2018.
	The documents don't clearly spell out what that payment was for, but all the other money transfers discussed in the indictments are linked to shipments of firearms or their components.
	Krychek had recruited Marino to join the group earlier that year, in February of 2018.
	According to testimony from John Little, the investigator from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services assigned to this case, Marino had attempted to join Identity Europa, a now-defunct white supremacist organization, earlier that year.
	So he was clearly shopping around for the right fit, just looking for the right Nazi group for his interests.
	Little's testimony doesn't elaborate on this at all, but I did go on a bit of a fishing trip to see what I could find about this on my own.
	Didn't find anything terribly satisfying.
	But I did find a single message in the Discord leaks published by Unicorn Riot.
	In February of 2018, a user posted in the Identity Europa Discord's new member chat, Hey, I'm Joseph from New Jersey.
	My interviewer was AJ.
	But a YouTube channel with the same username has playlists that include several videos of cops getting shot, a genre of video mentioned in the court records.
	Apparently, the crew liked to watch things like this as part of their training, preparing to fight police to the death if the time came, and critiquing the way the officers reacted to getting shot, saying things like, a true warrior wouldn't show pain.
	That YouTube account also added a video to a playlist about how National Guardsmen can prepare for overseas deployment at around the same time that Marino's National Guard unit did deploy to Qatar in 2019.
	So, I can't tell you with ironclad certainty that the Discord post I found is the one the investigator was talking about, but it seems like a pretty solid fit.
	And I guess Identity Europa wasn't a good fit because he never posted there again. .
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	Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal.
	I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding.
	We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday.
	Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind.
	Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality, after your entire world is flipped upside down.
	From unbelievable romantic betrayals.
	The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him.
	To betrayals in your own family.
	When I think about my dad, oh, well, he is a sociopath.
	Financial betrayal.
	This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars.
	And life or death deceptions.
	She's practicing how she's gonna cry when the police calls her after they kill me.
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	I'm John Walczak, host of the new podcast, Missing in Arizona.
	And I'm Robert Fisher, one of the most wanted men in the world.
	We cloned his voice using AI.
	In 2001, police say I killed my family.
	My first mom, then the kids.
	And rigged my house to explode.
	In a quiet suburb.
	This is the Beverly Hills of the valley.
	Before escaping into the wilderness.
	There was sleet and hail and snow coming down.
	They found my wife's SUV.
	Right on the reservation boundary.
	And my dog flew.
	All I could think of is you're gonna sniper me out of some tree.
	But not me.
	Police believe he is alive and hiding somewhere.
	For two years.
	They won't tell you anything.
	I've traveled the nation.
	I'm going down in the cave.
	Tracking down clues.
	They were thinking that I picked him up and took him somewhere.
	If you keep asking me this, I'm gonna call the police and have you removed.
	Searching for Robert Fisher.
	One of the most dangerous fugitives in the world.
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	Join an exploding house, a hunt, a family annihilation today, and a disappearing act.
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	For decades, the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold, with law enforcement seemingly powerless to intervene.
	It uses terror to extort people.
	But the murder of Carmichael Ante marked the beginning of the end, sparking a chain of events that would ultimately dismantle the most powerful crime organization in American history.
	It sent the message to them that we can prosecute these people.
	Discover how a group of young prosecutors took on the mafia, and with the help of law enforcement, brought down its most powerful figures.
	These bosses on the commission had no idea what was coming their way from the federal government.
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	Hey guys, I'm Lauren Lapkus, voice of Tereza and host of Haunting.
	In this series, we'll be bringing you different totally true ghost stories each week straight from the person who experienced it firsthand.
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	But back to the guns.
	Because that's where all of this started.
	In April of 2020, investigators with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS, sat down with that confidential witness.
	The guy who wanted to use his COVID bucks to buy a Glock.
	When Liam Collins tried to persuade him to purchase the weapon from him instead of going to a store in town, Collins showed the potential customer videos of the kinds of equipment he could get.
	The video showed a man with very distinctive tattoos firing a pistol with a homemade silencer.
	John Little, the NCIS agent, later testified that they wanted to find photos of Kryszczuk that would show that part of his arm to determine if Kryszczuk was the man in the video.
	Obviously they had his driver's license photo, but you can't see his tattoos in any of the photos the government already had.
	So he set off to do a little open source research online, and what he found was Paulie Harker.
	So this NCIS agent absolutely watched some of the same pornographic videos I had to watch while researching this, and you can probably guess that you can definitely see the tattoos in the video.
	And given that this initial interview was with NCIS, not the FBI, we can guess that this confidential witness was likely a fellow Marine.
	So credit where credit is due, I guess.
	At least one Marine in this story was offered the chance to do crimes to the Nazi and said, I think I gotta talk to somebody about this, instead of sign me up.
	And the NCIS investigators were probably very pleased to hear their new cooperating witness say the name Liam Collins.
	Just a few months earlier, they'd tried to talk to Collins himself about something else.
	When the contents of the defunct Iron March forum were leaked online in late 2019, Collins was quickly identified in the data.
	Newsweek published an article on November 8, 2019 identifying Collins as an active-duty Marine whose Iron March posts were riddled with slurs and plans to create his own paramilitary force.
	When NCIS investigators attempted to interview him about the allegations in the article, he asked for an attorney and declined to comment.
	There's no information available about what follow-up occurred internally between that November interview and this confidential witness coming forward in April, but I really want to believe that they were developing their own investigation into Collins during that time, before this gift fell into their laps.
	Instead of arresting Collins immediately for trying to sell an illegal silencer to this witness, they set up a meeting.
	They needed their cooperating witness to actually buy the gun, right?
	Offering to sell it to him wasn't enough.
	They needed him on record making the transaction.
	And so on April 24th, 2020, the cooperating witness transferred $1,500 provided to him by the government to Collins for the pistol and the silencer.
	Collins told the buyer that the money would then be transferred to someone he had done many similar deals with, someone he's known for years and trusts completely, even showing the witness the Venmo account he was sending the money to.
	The Venmo account was under the actual name of the man who had fulfilled the order, Paul Kryszak.
	An affidavit written for a search warrant later that summer says investigators were then able to follow that money.
	It went into Kryszak's personal bank account, and he then used that money to make several purchases for the materials he'd need to fulfill the order.
	Now, I'm not a gun guy.
	Gun guys are some of the most pedantic little nerds on the planet, and so I'm going to say this preemptively.
	I do not want you to explain gun guy stuff to me.
	I did some research and I consulted a couple of gun guys I know, and this is correct enough for us all to make it through the episode.
	One of the things Kryshak purchased with the government's money from this controlled buy was called a solvent trap.
	If you, like me, are not a gun guy, you don't know what that is.
	So I was looking online for websites where you can buy solvent traps, and the ad copy on these websites seems convincing enough.
	It's a little tube you can screw onto the end of your gun when you're cleaning it, and its alleged purpose is to collect the excess solvent that's used to clean the weapon.
	So convenient, right?
	But as I read through some of these sites, it felt like I was being lied to.
	If this is such a necessary object that everyone needs every time they clean their gun, why haven't they always existed?
	Why have I never heard of this being an issue that every gun owner is facing every day?
	Big puddles of solvent every time you clean your gun.
	And I feel like I've seen people clean guns inside.
	If this is something that makes a large mess with a volatile chemical, surely you wouldn't do it inside.
	So I asked some gun guys.
	It's not a thing.
	Nobody uses a solvent trap to clean a gun.
	It's a flimsy cover story for an object that can be easily modified with minimal skill to create a homemade silencer.
	And silencers are not completely illegal.
	It's very possible to own one legally.
	But you have to do some paperwork and pay some money and wait a little while.
	And then, of course, the government knows you have it.
	And they are banned at the state level in a handful of states, including New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, three states where we'll see him making or shipping them to.
	So based on the information they got from this controlled buy with their cooperating witness, they now know that Liam Collins is selling guns and silencers in North Carolina.
	He's sending that money to Paul Kryszczuk in Idaho, and then Kryszczuk is doing a little amateur gunsmithing, and then he's putting these guns in the mail.
	You know, this isn't arts and crafts between friends or, you know, small business entrepreneurship.
	That's gun trafficking.
	And they already know Collins was active on Iron March.
	They've tried asking him about it.
	And the investigation quickly leads them to Kryszczuk's account in the Iron March data, too.
	And then to the conversations that Collins and Kryszczuk had been having together about creating a modern day SS.
	About buying land in the Pacific Northwest.
	About recruiting people with military backgrounds for a coming domestic conflict.
	About arming themselves.
	Kryszczuk had recently moved from New York to Idaho and he's making guns.
	This plan is already in motion.
	Based on the package they could confirm was a result of their controlled buy, investigators discovered that Kryszczuk was using a fake driver's license with the name Sean Corcoran to rent a private mailbox in Idaho.
	And their cooperating witness was far from the only person receiving packages from this Sean Corcoran.
	Financial records for Collins and Kryszczuk showed numerous similar transactions involving the pair with apparent buyers, many of whom were identifiable as other Iron March posters or other active-duty Marines.
	Investigators obtained warrants to intercept a trio of packages from that address in Idaho and address to another Marine in Collins' unit.
	Inside, they found a pistol with no serial number and a silencer, with the parts distributed across the three boxes, I guess so it would be less suspicious?
	I don't know.
	A few days later, there was another trio of packages with the same contents.
	Both times, investigators opened the packages, documented their contents, packed them back up, and put them back in the mail.
	So just because you haven't been caught doesn't mean you're not caught, right?
	You see this in a lot of investigations where they know exactly what you're doing and they're watching you do it and they're letting you do it enough times to get yourself in deeper trouble.
	So don't think that just because the package with your illegal gun arrived that it's all good now.
	So the packages go back in the mail and then they waited outside the post office to see who picked them up.
	Physical surveillance showed Justin Hermanson, a Marine in Collins' unit and another member of this Nazi paramilitary, pick up one set of those packages.
	A few days later, when NCIS conducted another controlled meet with their cooperating witness, it was Hermanson who arrived to hand over the gun to the buyer.
	So they're kind of dead to rights here on the firearm trafficking.
	Collins and Kryszczuk, and to a lesser degree Hermanson, have all participated in this scheme to make, ship, and sell these guns and silencers.
	But now it's becoming clear that there's something else going on here.
	In July, Liam Collins bought a plane ticket to fly to Boise.
	Joseph Marino, that National Guardsman in New Jersey who had made his own transfers directly to Kryszczuk the year before, bought a plane ticket too.
	And Jordan Duncan, a former Marine who had also made several transfers to Kryszczuk, corresponding with packages mailed to him and his brother in Texas, was surveilled driving from San Antonio to Idaho and unloading a large number of very heavy boxes from his car into Kryszczuk's garage.
	What were they doing?
	The investigators got a warrant to track Liam Collins' location by his cell phone during this trip, but he ultimately did not go.
	This was July 2020, a lifetime ago.
	There were pandemic-related restrictions for active-duty Marines that prevented him from traveling.
	But Joseph Marino, Jordan Duncan, and Liam Collins' little brother Tate did make the trip.
	FBI agents surveilled the group when they met in Boise.
	Photos and videos recovered from the men's phones show them wearing the skull print half-face mask closely associated with Atomwaffen at the time, shooting their guns and posing for group photos giving the Nazi salute.
	During that visit, they conducted several live fire training exercises out in the middle of nowhere.
	In August of 2020, investigators installed a poll camera outside the post office near Camp Lejeune where Collins and Hermanson were picking up these packages.
	They considered installing a poll camera outside Joseph Marino's home in New Jersey, probably to document the deliveries of stolen military equipment that Collins was having dropped off by a third party, but the lighting was no good and the camera never went up.
	They conducted another controlled buy with their cooperating witness, this time having the witness purchase a short-barreled rifle and another silencer, and confirming the details of the purchase over FaceTime with Collins.
	They got another warrant to track Liam Collins using his cell phone.
	And they got warrants for the iCloud accounts belonging to Paul Kryszczuk, Jordan Duncan, Justin Hermanson, Liam Collins, and Tate Collins.
	Joseph Marino was spared that particular intrusion.
	The affidavit notes that he was a Samsung user, so he did not have an iCloud account.
	And now, unbeknownst to them, they are on a collision course with a federal indictment.
	And at the same time, they're ready to move past just mailing each other guns.
	They're ready to move on to the next phase.
	In August, Jordan Duncan and Paul Kryszczak were chatting about Duncan's upcoming move to Boise.
	Kryszczak tells Duncan to go ahead and follow BLM Boise on Instagram because he's been getting a lot of really good intelligence from their posts.
	Duncan writes, I'm like four weeks away from being there, fam.
	Been thinking a lot more about stuff you and I need to be doing.
	And Kryszczak tells him, playtime is over.
	Writing, he is looking forward to you getting out here so we can get shit done.
	Duncan replies, Yeah, I feel you.
	The closer I get to it, the more I think about everything we have to do.
	And brother, we are going to have to move some mountains.
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	In September 2020, In September 2020, Jordan Duncan takes a pretty serious pay cut to take a job up in Idaho and moves up to Boise to be near Kryshuk.
	Liam Collins is discharged from the Marines and sets off on a road trip that includes a stop in New Jersey to speak with Joseph Marino in person.
	In October, Justin Hermanson recruits another Marine to the group.
	Collins instructs this new member to buy a bunch of Tannerite, an explosive that can be ignited by shooting at it.
	Paul Kryszczuk was preparing to take the entrance exam to become a firefighter in Boise.
	And Liam Collins moves to Idaho, moving in with Jordan Duncan and Boise.
	On October 16th, 2020, Joseph Zakarek, that police officer in Indiana, is publicly identified in the Iron March leaks.
	He is immediately fired.
	And so just days before Jordan Duncan, Liam Collins, and Paul Kryszczak are arrested, they don't know they're about to be arrested, they're all in the group chat urging Zacharek to just move out to Boise to be with them.
	You know, you've lost your job.
	You don't have anything else to do right now.
	Just come on out here with us.
	But after being publicly outed and losing his job, Zacharek just wants out altogether.
	It's just not worth it anymore.
	And he later tells federal agents that he's very worried the group will think that he talked to the cops.
	Which is, I guess, kind of a silly thing to worry about because he was a cop until the day before this, but I guess he means other cops and about this.
	So the more they insist that you have to come out here, you're not allowed to leave the group, you have to come out here to be with us, the more scared he gets that they only want him to come out to Boise so they can kill him.
	And that's the week the first indictment came down.
	And it's only for Liam Collins and Paul Kryszak, and they're only charged with the gun trafficking.
	The feds pick up Jordan Duncan the same day, charging him with conspiracy.
	He was arrested as he walked across the parking lot on his way into work that morning.
	A dozen agents threw flashbangs before rushing him.
	And on the day of that arrest, all the feds know for sure is that these guys are making and mailing guns.
	And that they have these extremist views.
	It's not illegal to have those extremist views.
	You can't arrest them for having those views.
	But if you know they're trafficking those guns to members of their Nazi paramilitary group, there are going to be some follow-up questions that aren't about the National Firearms Act.
	And right around the time of these first arrests, investigators interview Maxwell Womack, the most recent recruit to the organization.
	The one who bought all that Tannerite.
	Justin Hermanson had recruited this fellow Marine just weeks before the indictment.
	He's only mentioned by name a few times.
	It looks like he came into things right there at the end and hadn't necessarily broken the law yet and was very cooperative during the investigation.
	And they also interviewed Joseph Zacharek, the cop with cold feet.
	He too was cooperative and was never charged in connection with the group's activities.
	And both of these men tell investigators in October of 2020 that their former friends had talked a lot about attacking the power grid.
	They were obsessed with the Metcalf sniper attack, a still unsolved incident in 2013, where a small team of gunmen damaged 17 transformers at the Metcalf transmission substation outside of San Jose, California.
	The attack failed to actually take out power to the area, but it did cost $15 million in damage.
	And it's a source of great fascination for a certain kind of guy.
	A guy who wants to turn out the lights.
	It's sort of proof of concept that you can take out a substation with just a rifle.
	And when they arrested Paul Kryszczak, they found a piece of paper in his wallet.
	On one side, there was a handwritten list of intersections.
	Each intersection corresponded to the location of a piece of critical infrastructure for the power grid in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and California.
	And on the other side, there were a dozen names.
	The people on the list were mostly local and state politicians.
	It included the governor of Oregon and a California state representative who happens to be both gay and Jewish.
	Alicia Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, posted a tweet that week that the FBI had visited her home to inform her that her name was on the list.
	Investigative journalist Jim Laporta has also posted that he received a similar visit in late 2020.
	Physical surveillance conducted prior to these first arrests, along with the information they got back from the warrant for the iCloud accounts, did provide investigators with some idea that the group was considering using those guns they were making.
	Investigators noted that their observation of the recordings of the live fire drill the group got together for in July showed offensive tactics.
	So they're not just out there target shooting, they were drilling in the kinds of paramilitary tactics you would use to carry out an offensive attack.
	Liam Collins's younger brother, still in high school at the time, recorded a video of a Black Lives Matter rally from a high vantage point.
	He sent the group a photo he took while surveilling the rally, superimposing a swastika over the picture and captioning it, If Only They Knew.
	In late July, Paul Kryszczuk was seen sitting in his car observing a Black Lives Matter rally at Boise State University, then slowly circling it several times before driving off.
	A month later, he was seen again sitting in his car across the street from a park in Boise where a rally was being held.
	Activists in Idaho were understandably outraged when they found out that the FBI had simply watched this man as he watched them, knowing he was considering opening fire on them.
	It seems the full extent of the plan was only really uncovered after the arrests in October.
	With the first three members of the cell in custody, they now had full access to the men's phones and computers.
	In early October, Duncan and Kryszczuk discussed shooting members of the local Black Lives Matter chapter.
	Videos were also found on Joseph Marino's phone indicating that he had been surveilling Black Lives Matter rallies in his area that summer, too.
	In one conversation that summer, the height of the uprising after George Floyd's murder, Paul Kryszczak texted the group a photo of a BLM flyer he'd torn down in Boise.
	He said they should come up with something else to put up in its place.
	Joseph Marino replied, the lights will turn off and so will you.
	It's a bit of a clunky slogan.
	I might have workshopped that a little bit if I was in charge of propaganda for the Nazi terror cell.
	But it describes the group's ultimate plan.
	They hoped to do something like the Metcalfe sniper attack.
	And then, under cover of darkness, with emergency responders tied up with car accidents and medical emergencies that would ensue during a blackout, they would carry out a series of targeted assassinations.
	Searches of Kryszczuk's devices indicated he had already compiled information about the whereabouts of many of the names on his list.
	The group had discussed the most efficient ways of killing their targets, working out the logistics of placing car bombs.
	As Kryszczuk wrote to other members of the group, the final frontier is real-life violence.
	Liam Collins had been stealing military gear from Camp Lejeune for years, so when the time came, they'd be outfitted in military-grade body armor.
	It wasn't until August of 2021 that the Department of Justice actually filed a charge against the men for this particular element of the plot.
	The first indictment, in October 2020, charged Krychek and Collins with the firearm trafficking.
	Duncan was arrested at the same time and charged with a conspiracy.
	The week of those arrests, they tried to speak with Joseph Marino, and he was arrested on state-level charges in New Jersey for having an un-serialized lower receiver.
	That's the part of the gun that makes it legally a gun, according to the government?
	I don't know.
	I'm not a gun guy.
	And they interviewed Justin Hermanson.
	According to Joseph Marino's attorney, Hermanson was offered an out by the agents who spoke to him in October.
	They told him, hey, you've got a chance to help yourself out here.
	And that may have been true.
	A lot of the men involved in this plot never got charged.
	People who made purchases or picked up a package.
	Maxwell Womack, who bought the Tannerite.
	A lot of men who cooperated and weren't central to the plot did not get charged.
	And again, according to Marino's lawyer, Hermanson did talk to the agents at that time specifically about how involved Marino had been in these crimes.
	But either Hermanson wasn't that helpful or The agents just didn't realize at the time, in October, the extent to which he'd been involved in the gunrunning scheme.
	Because a month later, in November of 2020, there's a second indictment.
	The first superseding indictment.
	The term superseding indictment will be familiar to you if you have any involvement with the courts or if you've just been following the Trump criminal cases closely.
	But it just means they got the grand jury back together to issue a new indictment in a case, based on some new information.
	It could involve adding new charges or new defendants.
	And in this case, we got both.
	So in this second indictment, we've got way more details about the specific transactions, the money transfers, and the gun shipments.
	And now, in addition to Kryszczuk and Collins, Jordan Duncan and Justin Hermanson are charged.
	But we're still just talking about firearm trafficking.
	And there's this conspiracy element now making a new allegation that they're engaged in this conspiracy to traffic these guns for a criminal purpose with the intent being to provoke civil disorder.
	And here's where we finally get the government talking about them stalking these BLM rallies and talking privately about shooting protesters.
	The following year, in June of 2021, a second superseding indictment comes down.
	And now all five of these men have been charged.
	Paul Kryszczuk, Liam Collins, Justin Hermanson, Jordan Duncan, and now Joseph Moreno.
	And they've known all along that Moreno went to Boise in July 2020 to participate in the training drill.
	And they've known all along that Moreno was recruited to the group by Kryszczuk in 2018, and that he transferred money to Kryszczuk in 2018.
	It's unclear exactly when they determined that Moreno had been, as Collins was, engaging in a little bit of his own deal-making.
	Selling guns to people, getting their money, and then sending that money and the order to Krysztof to fulfill.
	But that's what's newly alleged in this second superseding indictment.
	So now they're all charged with this conspiracy to manufacture and ship firearms with the intent to cause civil disorder.
	And then, finally, in August of 2021, the third superseding indictment charges four of them, Kryshak, Collins, Marino, and Duncan, but not Hermanson, with conspiracy to damage an energy facility.
	And I guess I should explain a little bit about the idea that taking out a power grid is a rational first step for starting a race war.
	It's maybe not something that makes perfect intuitive sense to someone who doesn't have a dozen manifestos about it on their hard drive.
	FBI, if you were listening, these are research materials.
	I actually really hate it when the power goes out.
	But it's an incredibly common belief, at least in certain circles.
	The general idea, for many of them, is that a massive blackout would cause chaos.
	That's reasonable enough, perhaps.
	And most people who think that this is a good idea are accelerationists.
	People who believe that society is already unstable and instead of trying to fix it or realize their vision of what it could look like within the current structure, they believe that the best course of action is to force it to collapse.
	You accelerate the destabilization of society, you push it over the brink and into complete collapse so you can rebuild it from the rubble.
	And their vision of what is to be built from the ashes is Usually pretty bad.
	Spoiler alert, a lot of us are not alive in it.
	The general idea is actually predicated on a false assumption that in a blackout, when resources are restricted and there is confusion and chaos and we can't get what we need, that we'll turn on each other immediately.
	That we will turn to violence immediately.
	That we will riot and steal and kill because we've been inconvenienced.
	But a lot of the documentation we have from real natural disasters shows us evidence to the contrary.
	When disaster strikes, we don't Turn on each other?
	Psychologists and sociologists have terms like catastrophe compassion and disaster collectivism to describe the phenomenon.
	And research shows that this conventional wisdom that people turn on each other in a crisis is just not true.
	At least in the short term, disasters actually bring us together.
	But I suppose if you're an aspiring neo-Nazi terrorist, you don't have the same understanding of love and human compassion as your neighbours do, so the plan maybe makes sense to you.
	Attacks, or attempted ones anyway, on electrical infrastructure are alarmingly common in right-wing extremism.
	In early 2022, the Department of Homeland Security shared an intelligence bulletin with law enforcement agencies and utility operators that there had been a marked uptick in attacks on electrical infrastructure since 2020, writing, Domestic violent extremists have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors.
	Several news outlets linked the uptick and the resulting bulletin specifically to a 14-page zine-style document circulating on Telegram, a messaging platform favored by extremists.
	And honestly, I've got a copy of that one.
	I know which one they're talking about.
	It doesn't really provide any actionable instructions you couldn't come up with on your own.
	It doesn't map out a specific attack.
	It just sort of advances the idea that attacks like this are good.
	It's flashy, though.
	I'll give it that.
	It's got a lot of colors and fonts.
	Terrible fonts.
	Really bad use of fonts, honestly.
	One page is just a diagram of the wound patterns from Sharon Tate's autopsy.
	That does actually make a certain kind of sense, but I fear we'll have to save the pen pal relationship between Charles Manson and Neo-Nazi James Mason for another episode.
	But this document, cited by DHS officials as part of their concern over the rising threats to the grid, tells the reader to be a man of action, to topple this anti-white system through a variety of means, including attacking the power grid.
	The pamphlet writes, But with the power off, when the lights don't come back on, all hell will break loose, making conditions desirable for our race to once again take back what is ours.
	While these attacks can end up costing millions of dollars and, according to experts, could theoretically, in certain circumstances, trigger catastrophic, cascading grid failures that would take months to repair, they've never actually caused a race war.
	In 1999, three members of the San Joaquin Militia, an anti-government extremist group, plotted to blow up a pair of tanks, each holding 12 million gallons of propane, because they thought the ensuing chaos would force the government to declare martial law, which I guess in their minds would inspire more people to join the militia movement to then fight the government, so these militia groups are, you know, terrified that the government would declare martial law.
	And so in order to prove to people that the government could do that, they're going to make them do that.
	I don't know.
	I don't know what's going on in their minds.
	That same year, Donald Beauregard, the leader of a militia group called the Southeastern States Alliance, was arrested for a plan to steal explosives from a National Guard armory to blow up power transmission stations in Florida.
	He, too, hoped a government crackdown in response to the disaster would inspire a popular uprising and subsequent violent revolution.
	And remember Brandon Russell, the Iron March poster who founded Atomwaffen?
	When his roommate Devin Arthurs murdered the other two men they lived with in 2017, Arthurs told the police that Russell had plans to take out critical infrastructure.
	Tampa police searched the apartment, mainly because there were two dead guys inside from the double murder.
	And they found a cooler full of a white cake-like substance that FBI technicians on scene recognized as hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, an explosive compound.
	And they found other precursor materials for making explosives and homemade detonators, radioactive materials, a framed photo of Timothy McVeigh on Russell's dresser, and assorted neo-Nazi propaganda materials.
	The Tampa police spoke to Brandon Russell.
	He told them, yes, I'm a Nazi.
	Yes, I'm a member of Atomwaffen.
	But no, no, that cooler full of HMTD is actually for model rocketry.
	The Tampa police let him go, but the FBI immediately contacted the ATF with the details of the materials they'd found in the apartment and the ATF said, yeah, that's that's bombs.
	You let the bomb Nazi go.
	So they immediately issued a federal warrant for Russell the following day.
	He ultimately pled guilty to possessing an unregistered explosive device and was sentenced to five years.
	He was out barely a year before he started conspiring to blow up critical infrastructure in Baltimore.
	So he is back in federal prison now.
	Well, he allegedly conspired to take out the power in Baltimore, I guess.
	He hasn't been tried yet.
	Christopher Cook and Jonathan Frost were sentenced last year for a plot to attack the power grid in multiple U.S.
	cities.
	They, too, believed the ensuing chaos would spark the race war and that society could be rebuilt by and for white men.
	And there have been at least four unsolved attacks on electrical infrastructure in North Carolina in the last two years, including a November 2022 incident that left thousands without power in Jones County, not far from Camp Lejeune.
	A month later, in December of 2022, a woman died as a result of the power outage in Moore County.
	Because her death was a direct result of the attack on the infrastructure, her death has been ruled a homicide.
	So if they ever do charge someone for the attack on that substation, they'll probably catch that murder charge too.
	In February of 2022, Paul Kryszak pled guilty to conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.
	His plea agreement dropped all the other charges, even though, if you've been able to follow along this convoluted mess of a story, he's actually the one who made and mailed all of those guns.
	He was sentenced last month to six years and six months.
	Justin Hermanson was the next to plead, taking an agreement in March 2022, and was sentenced last month to one year and nine months for conspiracy to manufacture firearms and ship interstate.
	Joseph Marino took a plea deal a month later in April 2022, pleading guilty to the same charge, a single count of conspiracy to manufacture firearms and ship interstate.
	Oddly, he doesn't have a sentencing date that I can find.
	He's been out on bond since that August 2021 indictment, and after he pled guilty, they set a sentencing date for July 2023, but it was postponed indefinitely after a sealed motion was filed.
	It's possible they needed his cooperation in the cases against his co-defendants, and pending that cooperation, they postponed sentencing so they could consider that help in deciding his punishment.
	I should stop trying to guess why the Department of Justice times their paperwork the way they do.
	It's too hard, usually fruitless, and even if I'm right, I'll never know.
	I just can't help it, I guess.
	Liam Collins was the fourth to plead guilty.
	In October 2023, he pled guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of unregistered firearms.
	He was sentenced last month to 10 years.
	Then, finally, in June 2024, Jordan Duncan pled guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the manufacturing of a firearm.
	He's scheduled to be sentenced in September and could face up to 10 years.
	You have to wonder about the charges everyone ended up pleading to at the end of the day.
	The guy who made all of the guns didn't get convicted of a gun crime.
	Some of them are guilty of helping make the guns, some are just guilty of being part of the process of getting those guns across state lines.
	Marino isn't actually guilty of either, just of being part of a conspiracy to do it.
	And nobody's guilty of fantasizing about starting a race war, because I guess technically that's legal.
	Although, not in Virginia, actually.
	Section 18.2-485, conspiring to incite one race to insurrection against another race, makes it a class 4 felony here in the Commonwealth of Virginia to conspire with another to incite the population of one race to acts of violence and war against the population of another race.
	But I don't think anybody's ever actually been charged with that and these guys were trying to start the race war in Idaho anyway.
	They aren't the first weird guys to try to start the race war from Idaho and they definitely will not be the last.
	But today, I will leave you with this.
	The best thing I have ever, and probably will ever, read in a federal court transcript.
	At an August 2021 hearing to determine if Joseph Moreno would be held in pretrial custody, the prosecutor was trying to present evidence that the defendant was armed and dangerous.
	That's her job at that stage, right?
	To say that this guy is dangerous for these specific reasons and you shouldn't let him out.
	And that didn't have to be so hard, given what we know about the whole situation.
	But she misunderstood something she read in the chat logs that she'd entered into evidence.
	NCIS agent John Little, reading from the government's exhibit, a chat that Marino had sent about procuring guns and ammunition for a trip to West Virginia to shoot guns and hang out with his extremist pals.
	So he reads aloud to the court, Mr. Marino states he's got seven MAC 11s, about eight 38s, and nine 9s.
	It appears to be he's referring to firearms.
	These types of firearms were never recovered.
	These firearms would have different calibers.
	It appears they're trying to figure out what calibers they need to purchase.
	If you already know how this ends, I think you're already laughing.
	And the judge ruled that day that Moreno would be held without bond, citing his apparent leadership role in the group, his violent beliefs, the training he'd engaged in in furtherance of them, the surveillance he'd been conducting of these BLM rallies, and these mysterious missing guns.
	Shortly after that hearing, the last superseding indictment was filed, so Moreno was back in court in front of the same judge.
	And now that he'd had a few days to mull it over, Judge Richard E. Myers interjects just as the government is finishing up their questioning of that NCIS agent.
	He says, I've got a follow-up question about the Biggie Smalls lyric.
	And the federal prosecutor is confused.
	The what?
	And the judge says again, about the Biggie Smalls lyrics.
	I've got seven MAC 11s, about eight 38s and nine 9s.
	That's a Biggie Smalls lyric.
	Are we looking for those firearms?
	The federal prosecutor remains perplexed.
	Judge Meyer says the court is independently aware of the Biggie Smalls lyrics.
	He's taking judicial notice of the lyrics to Come On, a track on the 1999 album Born Again from the Notorious B.I.G.
	The witness and the federal prosecutor are baffled, like the judges started speaking a foreign language to them.
	And so he says again, that list of guns is just Biggie lyrics.
	And the prosecutor, at a loss, says, I am still not understanding the word.
	I apologize.
	And the judge looks at her and says, Biggie Smalls.
	Biggie Smalls is a dead rapper.
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	No one shot the governor of Oregon.
	And a federal judge in North Carolina took judicial notice of Biggie Smalls.
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