Jon Minadeo II, the North Bay’s most notorious neo-Nazi, has resurfaced in Petaluma after several years living out of state, trailed by a federal lawsuit accusing him and his associates of violent hate crimes.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors extremist groups, has sued Minadeo, his organization known as the Goyim Defense League and five others on behalf of Deago Buck, a biracial man who says he was assaulted during a multi-day neo-Nazi rally in downtown Nashville in July 2024.

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Minadeo, who grew up in Marin and Sonoma counties, has spent years promoting antisemitic propaganda through the Goyim Defense League — a loose network the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as one of the country’s most prolific distributors of hate literature.

He was

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