By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) -The founder of a neo-Nazi group was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for plotting to sabotage Baltimore’s power grid, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland said.

Brandon Russell, 30, of Orlando, Florida, was found guilty at trial earlier this year of conspiring to damage or destroy an energy facility. Senior U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore handed Russell the maximum sentence for that offense.

His convicted co-conspirator in the plot, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 37, of Catonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty and received an 18-year prison term in September 2024.

Prosecutors said the conspiracy targeting several electrical substations around Baltimore, which is predominantly Black and ra

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