By Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post; January 9, 2018
WASHINGTON ― An attorney for a neo-Nazi facing federal terrorism charges for trying to commandeer an Amtrak train said Tuesday that the case against his client had been “blown significantly out of proportion.”
Taylor Michael Wilson, a 26-year-old from Missouri, is accused of breaching a secured area while armed with a handgun and setting off the emergency brake on an Amtrak train as it passed through a remote part of Nebraska in the early morning hours of Oct. 22. The incident didn’t garner much press coverage at the time, and Wilson, who was facing local charges, was even allowed to leave jail after posting bond last month. But the FBI arrested Wilson just before Christmas, and federal prosecutors unsealed the terrorism charges against him last week. The Justice Department never informed reporters about the case.
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