{"id":1582874,"date":"2022-08-01T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582874"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:25:36","slug":"fbi-raids-radical-socialist-org-accused-of-being-a-russian-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-raids-radical-socialist-org-accused-of-being-a-russian-front\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raids Radical Socialist Org Accused Of Being A Russian Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-raids-radical-socialist-org-accused-of-being-a-russian-front%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582874&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_612694196-scaled-e1656071054564.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\"><\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Federal agents raided the headquarters Friday of the Uhuru Movement, a 50-year-old socialist organization in St. Petersburg, Florida accused of interfering in US elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facts and circumstances surrounding this indictment are some of the most [egregious] and blatant violations we\u2019ve seen by the Russian government in order to destabilize and undermine trust in American democracy,\u201d FBI Special Agent David Walker said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/significant-investigation-fbi-police-search-uhuru-house-in-st-pete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> WFLA. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/11\/biden-secret-service-fbi-iran-pakistan\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Alleged Secret Service Dupers Were Possibly Tipped Off Ahead Of FBI Raid)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg said during a press conference that Russian national and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia, Aleksandr Ionov, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government\">spread pro-Russia propaganda<\/a> across the United States in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service, the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: The FBI appears to be investigating members of the Uhuru movement in St. Petersburg for alleged connections to Russian government officials who the feds say directed a campaign to interfere in U.S. elections. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IbJvHXXBWT\">https:\/\/t.co\/IbJvHXXBWT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Times (@TB_Times) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TB_Times\/status\/1553065064084668418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIonov allegedly orchestrated a brazen influence campaign, turning U.S. political groups and U.S. citizens into instruments of the Russian government,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department\u2019s National Security Division, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/russian-national-charged-conspiring-have-us-citizens-act-illegal-agents-russian-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. \u201cThe Department of Justice will not allow Russia to unlawfully sow division and spread misinformation inside the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1523096\/download\">indictment<\/a> refers to a \u201cpolitical group based in St. Petersburg, Florida\u201d that \u201cpromoted its views using multiple media outlets, including websites it operated, social media, and a radio station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ionov faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted, WFLA noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal agents raided the headquarters Friday of the Uhuru Movement, a 50-year-old socialist organization in St. Petersburg, Florida accused of interfering in US elections.\u201cThe facts and circumstances surrounding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}