In November 2001 the JDL's leader Irv Rubin and its West Coast co-ordinator Earl Krugel were arrested as part of a sting operation after an FBI informant named Danny Gillis delivered explosives to Krugel's home in Los Angeles.
[1][2] Bomb components including pipes, end caps, detonators and gunpowder were confiscated along with multiple rifles and handguns.
[3][4] In December 2001 Krugel and Rubin were arraigned on conspiracy charges to send explosives to the Sherman Oaks, California office of U.S. congressman Darrell Issa, a Lebanese-American, and to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California.
Part of the plea agreement demanded that Krugel reveal the names of all JDL activists involved in the 1985 bombing of Alex Odeh's office.
[5] He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September 2005,[3][5] and three days later he was murdered by another inmate, who struck him in the head with a concrete block.