A 24-year-old California man has been indicted on eight counts of conspiring and soliciting the murder of federal officials, working with a white supremacist group to compile a hit of of “high value targets” for assassination.
Noah Lamb allegedly worked with an online group called the Terrorgram Collective, the US Justice Department said in its announcement of the indictment on Wednesday.
“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is committed to aggressively pursuing those who engage in hate-fueled conspiracies and terrorist threats,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “We will use every tool available to protect the civil rights of all Americans and ensure justice for those targeted by such heinous acts.”
The indictment says that Lamb was a member of the Terrorgram Collective, which the DOJ described as “a transnational terrorist group that operates on the digital messaging platform Telegram, where it promotes racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism.”
“Members of the Terrorgram Collective believe the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate,” the department said.
The indictment did not name the targets but said the list included a US senator, a US district judge, a former US attorney general, along with various state and local officials, nongovernmental groups, and business leaders, NBC News reported.
Each target was named on a “list card” and included why the group saw them as an enemy, the indictment said. The list card called the district judge “an invader” from a foreign country, citing his ruling on an immigrant issue. The senator was called “an Anti-White, Anti-gun, Jewish senator,” the indictment said, and the former attorney general was called a racial slur.
Lamb is accused of identifying targets and obtaining home addresses and other personal information for the group to spread to other members. He is charged with one count of conspiracy, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, and one count of threatening communications. He faces up to 85 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
According to the Sacramento Bee, Lamb is the third member of the Terrorgram Collective charged in the ongoing investigation. Its alleged leaders, Dallas Erin Humber and Matthew Robert Allison, were arrested in a related case last fall.
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