Neo-Nazi Home Hit

A white supremacist record company,
based in a Jewish-owned home,
is raided for failing to pay state sales taxes.

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

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or the second time, a record
company that produces
racist and anti-Semitic mu-
sic and literature has taken
up residence in a Jewish-owned
home.
According to reports, 76-year-
old Pauline Walber leased a
home in Highland Township to
the operators of Resistance
Records. On April 9, police from
the Oakland County Sheriff s
Department, Ontario Provincial
Police and the Michigan Depart-
ment of the Treasury seized busi-
ness records, tapes, T-shirts,
cassette tapes and computers
from the home in an investiga-
tion of state tax fraud by the com-
pany.
Resistance Records, which
produces and sells music by 12
white supremacist bands and
publishes Resistance Magazine,
has allegedly been operating
without a sales tax license.
No arrests were made.
One of the founders of the 3-

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year-old record company, Mark
Wilson, formerly lived in a house
on Borgman Street in Oak Park
that was leased to him by Centre
Mortgage Co., an Oak Park com-
pany owned by Jews. He and his
family left in the summer of 1995
after members of a women's
rights organization began
protesting in front of the home.
Mr. Wilson, who also goes by
the name Brandon O'Rourke,
was a leader of a group called the
Church of the Creator, a radical
right organization that advocates
violent action against Jews,
blacks and immigrants. The
membership is estimated at
about 100.
When police raided the High-
land Township home, Mr. Wilson
had already moved out. He and
his family are living in Wiscon-
sin.
Ms. Walber told police she is
Jewish and had no idea of Mr.
Wilson's affiliations. The only per-
son present in the home on the

day of the raid, Jason Snow, is an
officer of Resistance Records, said
Sgt. Rodney Young of the Michi-
gan State Police.
The Ontario police participat-
ed in the raid as part of their on-
going investigation of Resistance
Records. The Windsor home of
the co-owner of the company,
George Burdi, was raided the
same day. Mr. Burdi, a leader of
the Church of The Creator in
Toronto in 1993, was convicted
in Canada of assaulting a woman
in 1993 during a scuffle between
skinheads and anti-racist pro-
testers. He is the lead singer of
the band Racial Holy War, or Ra-
HoWa, which is represented by
Resistance.

Leasing from
Jewish owners.

Sgt. Young said police must re-
view evidence seized from the
Highland Township home, in-
cluding 96 boxes of Resistance
Record products, three comput-
ers and business records. Police
had to hire a U-Haul truck to re-
move the goods, he said.
Because the company sold
products through its site on the
World Wide Web, Sgt. Young
said it will take a few months at

the very least to separate Michi-
gan sales from sales in other
states and countries.
Ontario police notified Michi-
gan authorities about Resistance
Records last January and asked
for assistance in its investigation.
"In a nutshell, we took police to
a concert, bought stuff, did a mail
order. [Resistance Records] was
not filed for sales tax," Sgt. Young
said.
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Burdi
could be charged with tax fraud,
a felony punishable by up to five
years in prison, and hit with a
fine that would be double the
amount of money owed in taxes
plus interest.
The case will be handled by
the state Attorney General's
office. ❑

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