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Tampa Free Press
Tampa Free Press
A federal jury convicted a Michigan man Thursday for conspiring with others and defacing Temple Jacob, a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, with swastikas and symbols associated with The Base, a multi-state, white supremacist group. Nathan Weeden, 23, of Houghton, was convicted of one count of conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the exercise of their rights and one count of intentionally defacing, damaging, or destroying religious property because of the race or ethnic, characteristics of individuals associated with that property. Weeden’s co-conspirators, Richard To…