White Supremacist with murder of JDL Activist

White Supremacist Prisoner charged
with murder of Earl Krugel
Jewish Defense League Activist.

Dennis Wagner
The Arizona Republic
Jul. 21, 2006 12:00 AM A federal inmate in Phoenix has been charged with the murder of a fellow prisoner who, as a militant with the Jewish Defense League, plotted to blow up a California mosque. But authorities are not saying whether the slaying last year was politically motivated.

According to a grand jury indictment, Las Vegas bank robber David Frank Jennings committed the premeditated slaying of Earl Leslie Krugel, 62, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix on Nov. 4, 2005.

Krugel had pleaded guilty to a 2001 conspiracy with JDL Chairman Irv Rubin to blow up a Culver City, Calif., mosque as well as the office of Darrell Issa, a Lebanese-American congressman. He admitted the plot was to be a hate crime.

Krugel, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, received death threats while in custody. He was murdered just three days after being transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Los Angeles to FCI Phoenix. A report in the Los Angeles Times quoted family members who said Krugel was bludgeoned from behind with a concrete block while working out in the prison gym.

On the same date three years earlier, Rubin was found dead in prison, the result of a lacerated throat and an 18-foot fall from a balcony. The death was ruled a suicide.

The Times also has reported, without naming sources, that Jennings is a White supremacist.