A neo-Nazi whose online rants struck fear in Roanoke and across the country was convicted of using his website to solicit violence today, just two weeks before his scheduled release from prison.

William A. White was found guilty of encouraging harm to the foreman of Chicago jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist in 2004.

The verdict came after a three-day trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

The self-proclaimed commander of a white supremacy group has been serving a 2½ year sentence following his convictions last year in Roanoke of threatening a bank employee in Missouri, a university administrator in Delaware and a group of apartment tenants in Virginia Beach.

Instead of looking forward to a Jan. 18 release date, White now faces up to 10 more years in prison on the Chicago charge.

The latest charge against White -- once described by a civil rights group as one of the loudest voices in America’s neo-Nazi movement -- involved a post he made to overthrow.com, a website that served as the megaphone for his racist views.

Mark Hoffman, the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted white supremacist Matthew Hale in an unrelated case in 2004, testified this week that he was dismayed to learn, four years later, that White had posted his name, address and telephone number to the website.

The post identified Hoffman as the juror who "played a key role" in convicting Hale, who is serving a 40-year prison sentence for soliciting the murder of a Chicago judge who ruled against him in a civil case.

Hoffman testified that within minutes, be began to receive hateful text and phone messages, some of them including racial and ethnic slurs, The Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.

"They wouldn’t stop," Hoffman told the jury. "I just kept breaking down in tears because they wouldn’t stop."