The alleged leader of a violent white supremacist group pleaded guilty to soliciting hate crimes, federal prosecutors said, after he was accused of urging another individual to poison Jewish children and dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to children of racial minority groups in New York during the holidays.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 22-year-old Georgian national also known as “Commander Butcher,” pleaded guilty Monday at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, according to the Justice Department. He also pleaded guilty to sending instructions to make bombs and ricin, prosecutors said.

Chkhikvishvili was a leader of an international racially motivated extremist group that is known as “Maniac Murder Cult” and goes by the initials MKY, federal prosecutors said. The group is ba

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