White supremacist Matthew Hale was sentenced on Wednesday to 40 years in prison for plotting to assassinate a federal judge whose husband and elderly mother were later slain by a another man angry at the judge. Hale, 33, a neo-Nazi who preached racist rhetoric as leader of his Illinois-based group, “World Church of the Creator,” was convicted a year ago of soliciting the murder of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow. Full Story