Who is Leo Frank? This is a summary, from Ryan Dawson and highlights the lengths the Anti-defamation League (ADL) will go to, in order to protect one of their own. At the link, Dawson interviews a relative.
B’nai B’rith organization gave birth to the ADL while defending its Atlanta chapter president Leo Frank. Frank raped and murdered a 13 year old girl. The ADL was formed to defend him when he murdered and raped Mary Phagan. Frank nervously revealed the victims name in front of police before they had given him any such details.
The ADL was going to get him released based purely on the fact that He was Jewish and a high profile crime made Jews look bad. They would like one to believe that he was innocent with fake news history and will tell you so on Wikipedia. Leo admitted on the witness stand to the jury that he was “unconsciously” at the scene of the crime when the murder occurred. The grand jury voted 21 – 0 for indicting him. Four of those jurors were Jewish. That shouldn’t matter, but it does because later the ADL would try to argue that the jury wrongly convicted him because of antisemitism rather than because all the evidence showed that he did it in everyone’s eyes. He was convicted. However Frank who was unanimously elected president of the B’nai Brith Chapter again after being convicted of rape and murder had one last method to weasel out. He with Jewish pressure groups, appealed to the Governor. The governor, John M. Slaton, in a very Clinton-esk move, commuted Leo’s sentence during his last week in office. He changed it from the death penalty to life in prison.