The FBI’s newly created Joint Mission Center has identified suspects and uncovered ‘nefarious’ funding sources behind violent interstate protests, according to FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia.
Investigation Details
Raia stated that the bureau’s multi-agency mission center has moved beyond intelligence gathering and into active financial investigations aimed at dismantling the networks that finance political violence. The center brings together counterterrorism, cyber, counterintelligence, and financial investigators and specialists from the Treasury Department and IRS to trace funding streams, identify criminal actors, and build prosecutable cases.
The FBI has disrupted numerous violent actors over the past 15 months, including during anti-ICE demonstrations in New York City, and is increasingly shifting its focus beyond arrests at protest scenes to the financial infrastructure supporting those activities.
Grand Jury Investigation
A grand jury has issued subpoenas seeking financial records related to a network of nonprofits allegedly connected to violent protest activity and possible illicit financing. The investigation is focused on identifying and dismantling the funding networks that investigators believe enable recurring episodes of political violence across the country.
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