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Today we are introducing two more members of Atlantic Nationalist Club (ANaC), Samuel C. Kieffer Bray and Sean A. Lemley, both of New Jersey. Kieffer Bray and Lemley couldn’t be more different than each other on a base level, but have been brought together by this hate group to terrorize local communities. Both are long time members of ANaC which is run by Claudino Petrucelli.

Samuel C. Kieffer Bray is 32 years old and lives in Medford, NJ (editors note- we will be referring to him by the name listed in NJ court records, however he is also listed as Samuel Kieffer in records that are publicly available). Kieffer Bray has been a nazi for several years, first getting involved in Patriot Front (PF) in 2021. Kieffer Bray was present for PF’s ill-fated July 3, 2021 rally in Philadelphia. It was during this rally that Philadelphia residents confronted Patriot Front and beat the shit out of them. Shortly after fleeing in Penske trucks, Philadelphia police pulled over the Patriot Front members and Samuel provided them with his license.

Being beaten by Philly residents and getting shaken down by the police didn’t deter Kieffer Bray’s trajectory into fascism though and he gained membership in the now defunct Embrace Struggle Active Club and the NJ chapter of ‘White Lives Matter” (WLM-NJ). Samuel’s bad choices and behavior were not exclusive to nazi groups. During 2022 he continued to make bonehead decisions- leading the police on a high speed chase on August 19.

As a first time offender he was not sentenced to jail but instead received pre-trial Intervention. On January 8, 2024 he was sentenced to probation and if he gets into no further trouble with the law past July 8, 2025 his record and charges will be erased.

While he was a member of WLM-NJ he crossed paths with Michael “Doc Grimson” Brown, who was publicly identified by Corvallis Antifa in November 2022. Doc Brown is infamously known as the failed Terrorgram bank robber, and upon his release from federal custody last month was transferred to his local county jail and is serving an 11 month sentence for violating his probation on a previous case. Brown and Kieffer Bray trained together before Brown attempted to rob the bank. Court documents reveal that Kieffer Bray was with Nicholas Mucci when the WLM-NJ member attempted to attack a One People’s Project show. Mucci is currently serving an 8 year sentence. Kieffer Bray is pictured above with Brown and in a video posted to Mucci’s Instagram account wearing the same boots and camouflage shorts.

Like all of Claudino’s ANaC minions, Samuel Kieffer Bray falls in line because Claudino preys on weak minds. Samuel also attempted to join NJP but it seems that he was rejected. He can still be found in the comments on TRS with the name saffronlizard.

In 2022 Kieffer Bray attempted to become a personal trainer but failed to achieve lift off. Evidence of this can be found on his LinkedIn profile below.

It is believed that Kieffer Bray currently works at a warehouse in NJ. Any further information regarding Kieffer Bray can be sent to phillyfashwatch@riseup.net

From the outside, the life of Sean Lemley looks very different than Samuel Kieffer Bray but don’t let that fool you. Lemley has been involved in hate groups led by Claudino Petrucelli since 2021. He has participated in many campaigns designed to intimidate diverse communities from Pennsylvania to Connecticut. From anti immigration rallies to white supremacist banner drops, to the intimidation of businesses, and racist graffiti and stickering runs, Lemley has been a central player within regional nazi activity of ANaC and WLM-NJ.

Lemley is 28 years old and lives with his parents in Lyndhurst, NJ. Family pictures we’ve reviewed paint a picture of a nice loving normal family, so why is Lemley a nazi? It is believed he was radicalized online and connected with Claudino in-person through volunteering in local GOP politics where they bonded over their shared hate and prejudices. Lemley is in poor company though, as 3 former nazi members of groups run by Claudino are in jail, including Andrew Takhistov, who was arrested in 2024 on domestic terrorism charges related to his plan to attack the NJ power grid.

Lemley was easy to find due to the fact that his social media presence is sloppy and he has a penchant to wear the exact same outfits in every photo. Additionally ANaC’s security around their published propaganda photos is shit, so it made Lemley low hanging fruit. Below is a documentation of Lemley’s participation and involvement over the last 20 months in ANaC in the form of photo evidence.

December 22, 2023

November 10, 2024 anti immigration rally in which a few members of his group held a banner and did some chants. Lemley’s standard jacket for events is shown, with some of his long hair circled in red.

The following day on November 11, 2024, Claudino made another post on the ANaC telegram showing that the organization TRAC wrote about them. He made sure to add nazi imagery in his response, which we are using to prove exactly what Sean Lemley is- a nazi. TRAC if you’re reading this please stop providing free advertising to nazi’s.

December 7, 2024 Sean is seen throwing a nazi salute in Hamden, CT

March 2, 2025 Sean is seen in another propaganda post from New Rochelle, NY

March 9, 2025 Sean in his usual North Face jacket and NJ Devils winter hat

In April 2025 Lemley and Claudino put up flyers designed to create racial tension on the Rutgers New Brunswick campus. Antifascists found and removed the flyer shortly after they were posted. They were spotted walking around 2:00AM on April 12th near the campus. The removed flyers had the telegram channel listed of Atlantic Nationalist Club.

Lemley is also believed to have been present in Princeton on November 21, 2021 when antifascists caught Claudino and his associates putting up racist stickers. Claudino physically assaulted one activist, but luckily he’s small and weak so no damage was caused.

In 2024 Lemley ran for a position on the Lyndhurst Board of Education, albeit unsuccessfully. Despite losing, he did manage to get 1,931 votes in the election. It is well known that Lemley has close ties to other elected school board members, including Anthony Giarusso. Giarusso owns a popular GOP bar that Lemley and Claudino Petrucelli have been spotted at in Lyndhurst, NJ called City Lounge.

Because of the very public relationship Lemley has with Giarusso and the fact that he is comfortable enough to bring his nazi group members around the City Lounge bar it’s hard to believe that Giarusso is in the dark about Lemley’s true politics. We believe the board should be aware of this connection too. All 9 elected members are listed here along with their email addresses. We have sent this article to them and are awaiting their response.

Lemley is currently employed at ShopRite in Lyndhurst, NJ on New York Avenue. If you want to let store management know about Sean’s activities, the store can be reached at (201) 372-6181.

Being a nazi has consequences. Antifascists will always defend our communities against people who spread hate. To the few remaining members of Atlantic Nationalist Club that are reading this- Claudino does not give a shit about you. The same way he doesn’t care that Nick, Andrew, and Steve are sitting in jail.