Strange encounters: Willis Carto was an ally of Alliance founder William Pierce in the 1960s, but the two anti-Semites feuded for the next three decades. Carto was nevertheless invited to a number of Alliance events in recent years, including one where he edified skinhead Ryan Maziarka, the swastika-tattooed treasurer of the group鈥檚 current board of directors. The end result was the humiliation of Pierce successor Erich Gliebe.