Vincent Bertollini

R. Vincent Bertollini (born 1939) is an American anti-semite and white supremacist who gained notoriety for providing financial support to Richard Butler, the founder of the Aryan Nations.

Bertollini, along with a close friend and former business partner, Carl Story (b. 1936), were notorious for running the Sandpoint, Idaho-based 11th Hour Remnant Messenger, a Christian Identity ministry which worked closely with Butler's group and often mailed out its racist pamphlets to area neighborhoods. [cite news | url=http://www.adl.org/tycoons/intro.asp | title=Computer Millionaires Fund Hate | publisher=Anti-Defamation League |year= 2000 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-17]

Bertollini was arrested April 12, 2006 by the FBI in Santa Fe, New Mexico after fleeing a drunken driving charge in Bonner County, Idaho, in July 2001. [cite news | url=http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=125955 | title=FBI catches Bertollini in New Mexico: Racist was fleeing DUI charge in Idaho | publisher=Spokesman Review |date= April 13, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-17] On August 25, 2006 he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two concurrent prison sentences of one to four years, both of which would be suspended, and concurrent 6-month sentences in the Bonner County Jail. The agreement also called for $10,000 in fines with $2,000 suspended, leaving a balance of $8,000. [cite news | url=http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2006/08/26/news/news02.txt | title=Judge sentences Bertollini to six months in jail | publisher=Bonner County Daily Bee |date= August 26, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-17] In June 2007 he received 41 months on federal charges in New Mexico of being a fugitive in possession of firearms("At the time of his arrest, agents discovered a sawed-off, 12-gauge shotgun with a shell racked into firing position. The search of the pickup truck he was driving also yielded a loaded 380-caliber semiautomatic pistol, federal court documents indicate."). [cite news | url=http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2007/06/26/news/news02.txt | title=Bertollini receives 41-month federal sentence | publisher=Bonner County Daily Bee |date= June 26, 2007 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-17]

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