FIRST ON FOX: The FBI's newly created Joint Mission Center has identified suspects, uncovered "nefarious" funding sources behind violent interstate protests and begun building criminal cases with federal prosecutors, FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia told Fox News Digital.In an exclusive interview at FBI headquarters, Raia said 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."We found funding from nefarious sources," Raia said."We have subjects identified.
Getting those folks to indictment and/or a conviction is a little bit different story right now."Raia's comments come as federal prosecutors from the office of Acting U.S.Attorney General Todd Blanche crack down on nonprofits allegedly connected to violent protest activity and possible illicit financing.
As Fox News Digital exclusively reported Monday, U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton has launched a grand jury investigation into American communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham and a network of nonprofits into which he has pumped roughly $285 million since 2017, according to people familiar with the investigation.A grand jury has issued subpoenas seeking financial records related to the Singham network, according to the sources.
Raia didn't speak specifically about the Singham case.Meanwhile, the U.S.Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama is prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in a case in which prosecutors allege SPLC executives paid an informant who helped coordinate transportation, logistics and communications for the 2017 "Unite the Right" protests in Charlottesville, Va., that led to the death of a young woman, Heather Heyer.DOJ LAUNCHES GRAND JURY PROBE INTO MARXIST MOGUL NEVILLE ROY SINGHAM'S FUNDING OF LEFTIST GROUPSFBI Deputy Director Christopher Raia talks...