Man Is Charged With Creating ‘Hit List' of Public Officials

New York Times

9 hours ago

A man has been arrested and accused of working with members of a white supremacist group to create a 'hit list' of assassination targets, including a U.S. senator and a federal judge, the authorities said.
Noah Lamb, 24, was arrested on Tuesday and indicted in the Eastern District of California on eight counts, including soliciting the murder of three federal officials. Prosecutors said Mr. Lamb had suggested people to include on a hit list and found personal information about them that was distributed to members of a group on Telegram, the messaging app.
The people on the list were not named in court documents, but they include a sitting U.S. senator, a federal judge and a former U.S. attorney, as well as state and municipal officials and leaders of private companies and nongovernmental organizations.
A lawyer for Mr. Lamb declined to comment on Wednesday.
Mr. Lamb was accused of being a member of the Terrorgram Collective, which operates on Telegram, and of playing a 'central role' in the group's effort to make a list of assassination targets.
Federal prosecutors described the Terrogram Collective as a transnational terrorist group that promotes white supremacy and calls for using violence and attacks on government infrastructure to ignite a race war. The group has been tied to a number of attacks, and planned attacks, across the world, prosecutors said.
The group 'recruited impressionable teenagers to do their dirty work, promising them eternal glory — 'Sainthood'— in return for committing an act of mass violence,' prosecutors said in court documents.
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