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He Was a Violent Neo-Nazi Leader. Then He Found Out He Is Jewish.
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Out of Prison, Back to Neo-Nazis — and Keith's Furniture Warehouse
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Post-prison, Meeink is a legend to his movement but unemployable to everyone else. A neo-Nazi friend offers him a furniture-moving gig — with the caveat that the boss is Jewish. Meeink takes it. Keith is a Flyers fan, an easy talker, and pays an extra $100 at the end of the job when Meeink had psyched himself up for a confrontation about being cheated. Over six months working in Keith's warehouse, driving trucks through New Jersey and listening to O.J. trial updates, Meeink realizes he would die to protect this man — while still socializing with neo-Nazis after work. The turning point is a truck ride during which Keith dismantles Meeink's core self-deprecating narrative with one sentence. The two-mile walk home from that drop-off becomes a full reckoning: Meeink decides, on foot, that he's done with the movement.
On April 19, 1995, Meeink watched smoke rising over Oklahoma City and thought: I might know who did this. He had openly talked about bombing federal buildings in neo-Nazi safe houses. Before McVeigh was caught, he walked into the Philadelphia FBI field office to tell them everything.
