Ex-prison guard with Klan ties stripped of all retirement benefits after plotting to murder black inmate
Florida Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center at Lake Butler and former correctional officer David Moran, composite image

Officials in Florida revoked the retirement benefits for a former correctional officer and Ku Klux Klan member convicted of plotting to kill a black former inmate, the Herald Tribune reports.

The Florida State Board of Administration upheld a recommendation that former Sergeant David Moran forfeit his benefits.

In August of 2017, Moran and Charles Thomas Newcomb were convicted in the murder plot.

WJXX-TV reported that the KKK murder plot was to kill the victim with an injection and then stick a fishing pole in his hand to stage the death as a drowning.

The plot fell apart after the men enlisted an FBI informant to assist with the attempted murder.