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struggle4progress

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Wed Mar 30, 2016, 05:23 PM Mar 2016

State rejects supremacist's complaints (ND)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State officials have closed their investigation into 10 human rights complaints that white supremacist Craig Cobb filed during his failed attempt to take over the small town of Leith.

North Dakota's Department of Labor and Human Rights has rejected all of the complaints, including one Cobb filed against Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who's now running for governor. The agency found seven of the complaints had no merit and dismissed the others either because the agency had no jurisdiction or Cobb didn't cooperate ...

The Labor Department finished looking into the complaints in December, more than two years after Cobb filed his first complaint in the fall of 2013. He tried unsuccessfully that year to turn Leith into an all-white enclave. He's now living in Sherwood, serving four years of probation for menacing and terrorizing Leith residents ...

Cobb alleged discrimination because of his white supremacy views ...


http://www.wahpetondailynews.com/state-rejects-supremacist-s-complaints-probe-took-years/article_46781666-f68c-11e5-8945-c3edd2e9d1a4.html
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