Victim tells jury she took Neo Nazi Bill White's e-mail as "direct threat"

Victim tells jury she took Neo Nazi Bill White's email as "direct... (Added: December 11, 2009)

One of the alleged victims in Roanoke Neo Nazi Bill White's trial said she took an email from White as a "direct threat" against her safety. (more)

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By: Scott Leamon | WSLS 10
Published: December 11, 2009

6:20 p.m.

Testimony wrapped up around 4:15 p.m. after the first alleged victim told her story to the jury.

The woman is a banking giant Citi Corporation employee from Kansas City, Kansas.

It was unclear from testimony how the government alleges White got the woman's name, but he's accused of sending her a threatening e-mail on March 22, 2007.

The woman told the jury she took an e-mail from White with links to newspaper articles on the brutal murders of a Chicago judge's family in Chicago as a "direct threat" to her safety.

Prosecutors likened the e-mail to an "extortion" scheme, where White demanded the employee remove a disputed item from his credit report, and after the email, Citi removed it the very next day.

A local attorney Citi hired to deal with White's credit score case here in Roanoke said on the stand Citi sent White a letter removing the item to avoid any further confrontation.

Testimony will continue tomorrow.

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1:09 p.m.

The departmental manager of Citi Group's collection wing in Kansas City, Kansas told a federal jury this morning an e-mail from Roanoke Neo Nazi Bill White to one of her employees was "downright scary."

Rachel Dixon said White had written one of her employees in March 2007 during a dispute about a line of credit.

The government is alleging White threatened the employee and extorted Citi Group using the email, which linked to a series of newspaper and other articles on the 2005 slayings of two family members of Chicago judge Joan Lefkow.

Dixon described the employee as "very emotional" after receiving White's email and a voice message left on her home phone number.

A phone number, along with several addresses, White published on his former website, overthrow.com.

Dixon said the employee's productivity fell significantly after the email.

A Citi internal investigator took the stand next, explaining to the jury how he investigated the email and turned his findings over to the Kansas City, Kansas branch office of the FBI.

The investigator said White called Citi's Kansas City, Kansas location 46 times during a three hour period on March 21, 2007.

The investigator also told the jury he was familiar with the white supremacist movement after getting into a shoot-out with an avowed Neo Nazi while he was a cop in Wisconsin.