Jason Kessler, a top organizer for a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, has been indicted on a felony perjury charge. The indictment stems from a sworn statement Kessler made to a magistrate judge in January, when he claimed a man he’d punched in the face had actually been the aggressor. When James Justin Taylor approached Kessler ― whom Taylor said he knew ― to learn about the petition, things got heated. “I really took issue not so much with the substance of it, but the way he was going about it,” Taylor told The Daily Progress. “I’ll admit that what I did was not legal,” Kessler told The Daily Progress in April, after entering his guilty plea for the misdemeanor assault.

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2017 16:16 UTC