A member of a white supremacist online group has been indicted after creating a hit list of federal officials designated as “high value targets,” including a senator and federal judge, according to an announcement on Wednesday, July 2, from the U.S. Justice Department. Noah Lamb, 24, of California, has been charged with eight federal crimes, including three counts of soliciting murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, and one count of threatening communications.
The group’s alleged goal
Prosecutors say Lamb and two other suspects were targeting people they viewed as threats to their white nationalist movement, which fundamentally believes that terrorism is the only way to achieve its end goal of a “White ethnostate,” and hoped to spark a race war through the plot dubbed “The List.”
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The white supremacist group that Lamb was a part of is called the Terrorgram Collective, which communicated largely through Telegram, where prosecutors said Lamb shared the targets.
Who was targeted?
According to court documents obtained by CNN, Lamb was tasked with finding targets and their home addresses, as well as other information that could be used in the hit list to aid others in finding and targeting each person.
Among the reported targets on the list were a United States senator described as an “Anti-White, Anti-gun, Jewish Senator” and a federal judge who the group designated as an “invader” from a foreign nation, as well as a person they derogatorily referred to as the “first [racial slur] U.S. Attorney.”
“Individuals on the list were targeted because of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, including federal officials,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith for the Eastern District of California. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office will work tirelessly with our partners in law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute those who commit such violations of federal criminal law.”
The targets on the list have not yet been further identified by authorities publicly.
What did the hit list reveal?
Lamb’s list reportedly included pictures of the people designated to be killed, as well as their names, addresses and occasionally their spouse, in addition to an image of a gun and a brief reason why the group believed the person should die.
Prosecutors said that authorities arrested Lamb on Tuesday, July 1, and they found white supremacist literature as well as firearm equipment with him.
If convicted on all charges, Lamb faces up to 85 years in prison.
