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So, Andrew Anglin runs the Daily Stormer donations through a company called Moonbase Holdings.

Now, though, that funding source is coming under scrutiny and attack in a libel lawsuit.

Dean Obeidallah, a prominent Muslim satellite radio host who is pursuing damages from Anglin after a default judgment in a defamation lawsuit, is asking a judge to allow him to examine Moonbase Holding鈥檚 finances, corporate structure, links to the Daily Stormer and to identify any officers or people with a connection to the company.

If successful, a default judgment could cut off Anglin鈥檚 access to Moonbase Holdings as source of donations to Daily Stormer and potentially drain any bank accounts tied to either the company or the website.

A false claim

, accusing the neo-Nazi blogger of defamation for an article claiming Obeidallah "masterminded" the May 2017 bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

The article included carefully doctored images from Obeidallah's Twitter account which seemed to show the comedian confessing to his involvement and saying he hoped the injured survivors would die in hospital.

The Daily Stormer published its post about Obeidallah a day after the Daily Beast published his column entitled, "Will Donald Trump Ever Say the Words 'White Supremacist Terrorism'?"

Obeidallah鈥檚 attorneys requested that Anglin remove the story from the website and that the comedian was receiving a variety of threats because of it. The request went unfulfilled.

So, Obeidallah, a New Jersey native, sued Anglin, saying the false story invaded his privacy and caused 鈥渆motional distress.鈥�

Neither Anglin, the Daily Stormer, or Moonbase Holdings filed a response to the lawsuit in federal court. Under the rules of procedure, failing to respond to a lawsuit results in a forfeit and allows the person suing to seek damages through a default judgment.

That鈥檚 what Obeidallah did. The clerk of court entered a notice of default, allowing Obeidallah and his attorneys to request that U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus enter a default judgment and award damages.

Before seeking damages, though, Obeidallah is asking the judge to allow an examination of the finances of Moonbase Holdings and the Daily Stormer, as well as to determine who else besides Andrew Anglin may be involved in the two enterprises.

鈥淒efendant Moonbase is integral to the Daily Stormer鈥檚 operations, having processed monetary contributions used to fund its publications and registered the web domain at which the defamatory article was initially published,鈥� Obeidallah鈥檚 attorney, Abid R. Qureshi, wrote in a motion asking for the examination.

Soliciting donations

Anglin, who is from the Columbus, Ohio area but claims to be out of the country, used Moonbase Holdings to solicit donations to the Daily Stormer. On the website, Anglin wrote:

鈥淎lso, finally, it won鈥檛 say 鈥楧aily Stormer鈥� on your credit card bill, but instead say 鈥楳oonbase Holdings,鈥� which either sounds like a hobby shop or a multilevel marketing scheme run by reptoids. Anyway, it looks innocuous on your statement. I thought that was a neat trick.鈥�

The mailing address is currently gone from the Daily Stormer website, despite Anglin saying, 鈥渁ll we have is cash and bitcoin.鈥�

The site does have a bitcoin code for donations, but no other way to give money (multiple fundraising platforms have barred Anglin and Daily Stormer). It is unclear when Anglin took down the physical mailing address for donors to send checks or cash.

At one point, Moonbase Holdings received about $3,400 a month from credit card donations through the alt-right fundraising site Hatreon. Hatreon has not been processing new donations since February 2017, making it unclear how much Anglin has raised since.

Anglin has used at least three different mailing addresses for Moonbase Holdings and Daily Stormer, with his father, Greg Mark Anglin, handling the paperwork.

A review of records from the Ohio Secretary of State鈥檚 office shows at least one of the mailing addresses matches that of Greg Anglin鈥檚 business, another matches an accounting firm and a third is a post office box.

Qureshi said in court documents that Greg Anglin is the person with the authority to retrieve mail from that post office box.

Greg Anglin also served as the original registrant of the Daily Stormer鈥檚 domain name on GoDaddy before the hosting service dropped the website.

Legal jeopardy

Anglin is a defendant in at least two other federal lawsuits 鈥� one filed by the 澳彩开奖 on behalf of Tanya Gersh, a Montana real estate agent, who alleges that Anglin coordinated a deluge of antisemitic threats and messages to her family, including her 12-year-old son.

The other stems from Anglin鈥檚 involvement in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.

But, Obeidallah鈥檚 lawsuit isn鈥檛 just a hazard for Anglin.

Along with Andrew Anglin and Daily Stormer, Obeidallah also named a series of 鈥淛ohn Doe鈥� defendants in the lawsuit.

Obeidallah鈥檚 attorneys hope to identify those 鈥淛ohn Doe鈥� defendants and determine if they are liable for any of Anglin鈥檚 behavior.

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