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Leo Vincelette Felton (born 1970, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American white supremacist of African American descent who was convicted of bank robbery and plotting to build a bomb in Boston to attack Jewish-Americans, colloquially referred to as the 2002 white supremacist terror plot. Felton was released from prison in 2019 after serving 17 years .

Early life

Leo Felton's father, Calvin Felton (b. 1930), was a black architect, while his mother, Corinne Vincelette (b. 1931), was a white voice and diction professor who became involved in the civil rights movement. His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Personal life

Felton changed his last name from Felton to Oladimu in 2008. He is an Odinist.

See also

  • American History X
  • Clayton Bigsby
  • Dan Burros
  • Frank Collin
  • Erik Jan Hanussen
  • Jack van Tongeren
  • Lawrence Dennis
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