White supremacist Matthew Hale was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for plotting to assassinate a federal judge. Hale is the leader of a white power group called Creativity. The group was called the World Church of the Creator but a federal judge ruled Hale had to change the group’s name for trademark reasons. Hale then tried to arrange for that judge — Joan Humphrey Lefkow — to be killed. Lefkow is the same judge who was in the news in February when her husband and mother were murdered in her home. At the time Hale was seen as a top suspect but police ended up arresting a man unconnected to the white power movement. That man–Bart Ross–confessed to killing the judge’s family. He has since committed suicide.