George P. Leggett, 21-year-old founder of a Nazi-style organization, the United Nordic Confederation, was scheduled today to begin an indeterminate sentence of up to five years’ imprisonment on burglary charges.
Judge Archibald Wemple passed sentence yesterday in Queens County Court on Leggett, who was convicted last December 3 of conspiracy to commit a crime, three counts of burglary and three counts of petty larceny. He was found guilty after an 11-day jury trial.
Leggett was arrested with ten other youths on January 17, 1958, after police received a tip that the gang planned to rob a bank to finance an “upstate camp.” When the arrests were made, police found a collection of rifles, bayonets, knives and some stolen jewelry. Leggett told police he organized his confederation to “unite and purify all the Nordic peoples of the world.”
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