Dylann Roof’s friend is going to prison for lying to FBI
The only person to whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plan to massacre worshippers at a historically black church in South Carolina is set to be sentenced for lying to the FBI.
Joey Meek will be sentenced Tuesday in Charleston by the same federal judge who presided over Roof’s death penalty trial. Meek faces 27 to 33 months behind bars.
Roof drew the death sentence for killing nine people in June 2015 at Emanuel AME church. Meek says Roof told him the outlines of his plan as they drank vodka and snorted cocaine a week before the massacre.
Meek wasn’t prosecuted for failing to report Roof’s plans. Instead, federal prosecutors said he lied to the FBI about knowing of Roof’s plot and encouraging other friends not to call authorities he had told about it.