Prosecutors say Brandon Russell was the leader of a neo-Nazi group who orchestrated a plot to knock out power to the city of Baltimore to sow social chaos.

BALTIMORE (AP) — As the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group goes on trial for conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid, his abhorrent beliefs aren’t really the point, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

On the third day of testimony, the jury heard phone conversations between a confidential informant, and Brandon Russel, who is accused of planning attacks against electrical substations in the Baltimore region along with co-conspirator Sarah Beth Clendaniel.