White supremacist from W.Va. sentenced for threats during synagogue trial

A West Virginia man who admitted threatening jurors and witnesses in the Pittsburgh Tree of Life trial was sentenced to 78 months in prison Wednesday.

Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, of Follansbee, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Wheeling, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office there.

Lloyd, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, ran a prolific and hateful website that, for much of the spring and summer, took aim at the prosecutors, witnesses, victims and jurors in the synagogue case. The three-month trial culminated in early August with a death sentence for shooter Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people in the 2018 attack.

In a series of emails and blog posts that escalated as the death penalty trial against Bowers progressed, Lloyd called for so-called lone wolves to target synagogues and Jews.

Read more: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette