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The leader of an Eastern European neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty in New York to recruiting others to carry out violent attacks against Jews and racial minorities — including a plot to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to children.

Michail Chkhikvishvili, 22, of the Republic of Georgia, who goes by “Commander Butcher,” admitted Monday in Brooklyn federal court to soliciting hate crimes and sharing instructions for making bombs and ricin.

Federal prosecutors say Chkhikvishvili led the Maniac Murder Cult, an extremist group advocating violence to spark a racial and religious war. He was extradited from Moldova to the Eastern District of New York in May.

“With today’s guilty plea, this defendant admits to a horrific plot targeting J

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