Earl Krugel

Earl Leslie Krugel (November 24, 1942 – November 4, 2005) was the coordinator of the Jewish Defense League in the Western United States. In 2005, he was sentenced to prison on charges of terrorism after he confessed to plotting, with the group's leader Irv Rubin, to blow up the office of Arab-American congressman Darrell Issa and the King Fahd mosque in Culver City, California. Following his sentencing, he was transferred to a medium-security federal prison. Bomb components including pipes, end caps, detonators and gunpowder were confiscated along with multiple rifles and handguns. According to the San Francisco Chronicle the affidavit also "painted a picture of a tiny gang that sat around talking about what to blow up but generally shied away from blowing up people". U.S. District Court Judge Ronald S.W. Lew accepted the plea. Part of the plea agreement demanded that Krugel reveal the names of all JDL activists involved in the 1985 bombing of Alex Odeh's office. The plea agreement was later retracted with details sealed to the public. who used a concrete block to strike his head. Krugel had been at the medium security prison for just three days. Krugel suffered multiple skull fractures, internal bleeding and multiple lacerations to his head, face and brain. The beating knocked out teeth and also fractured one of his eye sockets. Krugel was pronounced dead at the scene.

In 2007, Jennings pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. In 2008, he had 35 years added to his sentence.