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Brother of dead Quincy Nazi to plead guilty to hiding evidence his brother tried to burn down rabbis' homes

By adamg on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 2:40pm

A federal judge today set a Nov. 8 hearing date at which Alexander Giannakakis of Quincy is expected to plead guilty to helping hide evidence that his brother set two Orthodox rabbis' homes on fire - in Arlington and Needham - also tried to burn down a "Jewish-affiliated" business in Chelsea and was involved in other white-supremacist activities in the area.

US District Court Judge Patti Saris set the date after both prosecutors and Giannakakis reported they had worked out a possible plea deal.

The feds never named Giannakakis's brother since he was never charged with the fires - he slipped into a coma and died after the last of the fires.

Giannakakis, working as a security contractor at the US embassy in Stockholm while he brother was, allegedly, trying to burn down rabbis' homes, moved back to Sweden after his brother's death - and was soon arrested and spent two years in a Swedish prison for illegal gun possession.

He was returned to Boston earlier this year to face charges of making false statements in a matter involving domestic terrorism, falsifying, concealing and covering up a material fact in a matter involving domestic terrorism, concealing records in a federal investigation, tampering with documents and objects and tampering with an official proceeding.

A federal grand jury in Boston actually indicted Giannakakis in 2020, charging him with lying to federal investigators and taking some possibly incriminating evidence with him to Sweden.

According to the indictment, his lying included opening a family locker for investigators at a local self-storage place for investigators, then not telling them about a second locker, just a few doors down - where his brother kept T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas, a notebook with a swastika drawn inside it and a backpack containing a bottle of cyanide. Giannakakis had visited the second locker the night before he let the agents look at the first one, the indictment says.

Neighborhoods: 
Arlington
Needham
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Anti-Semitism
Nazis


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Comments

By deselby on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 8:11am.

It's odd that the stories don't name the brother who they say set the fires. He has several male relatives listed on people search sites. His brother would be relatively young, late 30s or early 40s. How did he "slip into a coma" and die? Did he play with that cyanide too much, or what?

Alexander Giannakakis was apparently a UPenn grad.

By Bob Leponge on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 9:10am.

Take the people search sites with a grain of salt. For me they list a couple of household members whose names I don’t recognize at all.