WIFE OF NAZI LAWYER ON SLAY PLOT: 'HE'S INNOCENT'

CYNDI

GUILTY

THE wife of an Idaho attorney who was found guilty of plotting to kill her and her mother has vowed to fight for his release.
Cyndi Steele reacted furiously at the verdict against her well known anti-semite husband Edgar, who once represented the Aryan Nations, despite recordings seemingly showing her husband offering money for her death. "This is the most devastating thing I have ever had happen in my life," she said outside Boise's U.S. District
Court, shaking and crying.
Prosecutors Steele offered $25,000 to a man called Larry Fairfax to kill the women so he could collect on an uninsured motorist insurance policy and be free to pursue a relationship with a woman from Ukraine.
Prosecutors said Fairfax tipped off federal investigators about the scheme and later employees of an auto shop found a pipe bomb strapped underneath Cyndi Steele's car.
Steele's defense attorneys, along with his supporters, maintained the audio recordings were fakes.
Steele is well known in anti-Semitic and white supremacist circles and has made speeches at white supremacist events and launched the website ConspiracyPenPal.com, where he published his views.
He also wrote a book titled "Defensive Racism: An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences."
But now he has been found   guilty of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission for murder for hire, possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence and tampering with a victim. He faces at least 30 years and up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 22.