A globally recognized Danish white supremacist is doing business in Wyoming, or at least through the Cowboy State as a registered LLC here.
Emil Kirkegaard has been accused by many of using scientific racism as a base for his open-access research journal website where he’s published numerous articles supporting a basis for biological differences between races, ethnicities and immigrant groups on measures such as crime and IQ.
Kirkegaard filed his Mankind Publishing House LLC with the state of Wyoming on Feb. 4, using Sheridan-based Northwest Registered Agent Service Inc. as the registered agent for the filing. Kirkegaard was at one time the internet domain owner of Mankind Quarterly, a racist pseudo journal rejected by most of the scientific community.
The contact information associated with the filing includes a California phone number that is now disconnected.
Kirkegaard legally changed his name to William Engman in 2021. The Wyoming business filing lists Engman as the organizer for the limited liability company, which is registered to a Denmark address. This address matches the address used on his scientific journal website.
He also owes more than $63,000 in legal fees stemming from a lawsuit he dropped in 2020, according to public records.
Child Porn OK Too
In a 2012 blog post, Kirkegaard wrote that it would be a "good idea to legalize child porn" because he thinks viewing this content would reduce the number of rapes committed by pedophiles. He’s also stated that he would support lowering the age of consent to 13 or lower if puberty begins earlier.
Despite his own views on child porn and age of consent, Kirkegaard has tried to link homosexuality to pedophilia and categorized all left-wing people as pedophiles on his blog.
Kirkegaard filed a defamation lawsuit against English writer Oliver Smith in 2018 after Smith called Kirkegaard a "pedophile" upon reading his blog posts. He subsequently dropped the lawsuit in 2020, but was ordered to pay Smith’s legal fees as a result, which is the source of the debt.
Smith wrote on his blog he believes Kirkegaard changed his name as part of an effort to avoid paying the debt.
The writer also told Cowboy State Daily he believes Kirkegaard filed his business in Wyoming as a way to exploit the state’s loose LLC registration laws in a further attempt to avoid paying the $63,768 legal debt he owes to Smith.
The original debt was much smaller but has grown by accruing interest since 2020.
Cowboy Cocktail
Wyoming has some of the most private business filing laws in the country and the cheapest rates to file, which allows people to easily cloak their identities when filing with the state.
These laws have drawn significant scrutiny in recent years as some nefarious actors have been found doing business in the state.
Earlier this spring, a Fremont County investigation revealed an influx of out-of-state businesses filing to addresses in that county, often unbeknownst to the actual property owners.
In another instance, there were 551 different businesses registered to a single address.
Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced earlier this week the dissolvement of three businesses connected by the FBI to North Korean actors.
Gray said his office has proposed several interim topics to the Wyoming Legislature to take further administrative action against entities on the basis of their being owned or controlled by foreign adversaries.
Leo Wolfson can be reached at leo@cowboystatedaily.com.
