Hawley Seeks DOJ Probe Into Alleged Coordinated Funding of Anti-ICE Protests

Overview

• In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Sen. Josh Hawley urges a comprehensive inquiry into funding networks he says mask donors through nonprofit pass-throughs and short-lived fronts.
• Hawley warns that possible foreign involvement could implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act, campaign-finance violations, money laundering, and racketeering.
• Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says multiple federal investigations are underway and describes a “massive underground fraud network” that shifted into anti-ICE organizing in Minneapolis.
• Blanche says investigators are making progress tracing related funding streams and that following the money is a priority for federal law enforcement.
• The Justice Department declined to comment on Tuesday, and separately New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office will deploy legal observers to document federal immigration enforcement activity.