A 24-year-old man from California has been charged with eight counts, accused of planning and encouraging the murder of federal officials. He allegedly collaborated with a white supremacist organization to create a list of “high value targets” for potential assassination.
According to the US Justice Department, Noah Lamb purportedly associated with an online group known as the Terrorgram Collective, as indicated in their announcement regarding the indictment made on Wednesday.
“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is dedicated to forcefully addressing individuals involved in hate-driven plots and terrorist activities,” stated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon. “We will utilize every means necessary to safeguard the civil rights of all citizens and ensure justice for individuals victimized by such despicable actions.”
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.
