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Montana Judge Orders Neo-Nazi Website Publisher to Pay $14 Million

Associated Press

   HELENA, MONTANA - A judge on Thursday ordered the publisher of a
   neo-Nazi website to pay a Jewish real estate agent $14 million for
   inciting his readers to harass her family with hundreds of threatening
   and anti-Semitic messages and calls.

   U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen entered Tanya Gersh a default
   judgment in her civil lawsuit after The Daily Stormer founder Andrew
   Anglin refused to appear for a scheduled deposition in the case.

   He ordered Anglin to pay Gersh over $4 million in compensatory damages
   and $10 million in punitive damages, and told him to permanently remove
   all posts, comments and images about Gersh, her husband and son.

   Anglin accused Gersh of trying to run the mother of white nationalist
   Richard Spencer out of the mountain resort town of Whitefish in 2016.
   He published the personal information of the Gersh family on his
   website and wrote to his readers, "Are y'all ready for an old fashioned
   troll storm?"

   Gersh said she and her family received threatening and horrifying
   messages for months.

   Christensen's order adopts the findings of a magistrate judge who
   called Anglin's conduct against Gersh "egregious and reprehensible."

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