Member of white supremacy group charged in alleged plot to solicit murder of 'high-value targets'
Noah Lamb was charged and indicted in Northern California federal court with eight counts of conspiracy, soliciting the murder of federal officials, doxing federal officials, and interstate threatening communication, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Authorities allege that between November 2021 and September 2024, Lamb collaborated with members of the Terrorgram Collective to create a list of targets they viewed as "enemies of the cause of white supremacist accelerationism," the indictment states.
The Terrorgram Collective is described as a network of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and accelerationist groups who promote violence and white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group primarily connects through the social networking app Telegram.
An attorney for Lamb declined to comment on the case.
The indictment does not name any of the targets but says that the list included a U.S. senator, a U.S. district court judge, a former U.S. Attorney General, as well as state and local officials, non-governmental groups, and business leaders.
The targets were allegedly chosen because of race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity based on the group's belief that "the white race is superior," the Justice Department said in a Wednesday news release.
Each target had a "list card" that allegedly included reasons why the group viewed them as an enemy, according to the indictment. The judge was allegedly labeled as "an invader" from a foreign country and highlighted the judge's ruling on an immigration issue, the indictment states. Federal prosecutors say the senator was allegedly labeled "an Anti-White, Anti-gun, Jewish senator," and the former attorney general was called a racial slur.
According to the news release, Lamb was responsible for identifying the targets and obtaining their home addresses and other personal information, which other group members could then disseminate.
"Transnational criminal networks that promote extremist ideology and seek to commit targeted assassinations and cause terror obviously have no place in our society," Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg of the Justice Department's National Security Division said in a statement.
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