fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa

The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are also recommended.

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238. Prof. Ramani S. Pilla / Ramani Sri Pilla, a Case Western Reserve University statistics professor, will go to jail for six months and repay tens of thousands of dollars for having mailed racially-charged hate letters to hersel / 2010-03-05 239. Case Western Prof Charged in Hate Letter Hoax / Federal authorities have charged Ramani Sri Pilla, who teaches statistics at Case Western Reserve University, with making false statements by reporting threatened hate letters that she herself wrote. / 2007-04-18 240. Case prof gets prison for reporting fake hate mail to FBI / A Case Western Reserve University assistant professor received a six-month prison sentence Friday for falsely reporting to the FBI that she received racially-charged hate mail. Ramani Sri Pilla must / 2007-11-16	Type of hoax: admitted - victim or accomplice(s) committed crime 2007-01-01 Cleveland OH Hate hoaxer Ramani Sri Pilla will go to jail for six months and repay tens of thousands of dollars for having mailed racially-charged hate letters to herself and then claiming they came from various colleagues.

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238. Prof. Ramani S. Pilla / Ramani Sri Pilla, a Case Western Reserve University statistics professor, will go to jail for six months and repay tens of thousands of dollars for having mailed racially-charged hate letters to hersel / 2010-03-05
239. Case Western Prof Charged in Hate Letter Hoax / Federal authorities have charged Ramani Sri Pilla, who teaches statistics at Case Western Reserve University, with making false statements by reporting threatened hate letters that she herself wrote. / 2007-04-18
240. Case prof gets prison for reporting fake hate mail to FBI / A Case Western Reserve University assistant professor received a six-month prison sentence Friday for falsely reporting to the FBI that she received racially-charged hate mail. Ramani Sri Pilla must / 2007-11-16

Type of hoax: admitted - victim or accomplice(s) committed crime

2007-01-01

Cleveland OH

Hate hoaxer Ramani Sri Pilla will go to jail for six months and repay tens of thousands of dollars for having mailed racially-charged hate letters to herself and then claiming they came from various colleagues.

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