1999 - Spring - Patriots for Profit
In a special Patriot Movement issue, the financial scams and tax evasion plots of the extremist right are exposed. NORFED is selling its own currency; Greater Ministries, a Florida 'church,' operated a Ponzi scheme bilking thousands.
In a special Patriot Movement issue, the financial scams and tax evasion plots of the extremist right are exposed. NORFED is selling its own currency; Greater Ministries, a Florida 'church,' operated a Ponzi scheme bilking thousands.
Articles
Bernard von NotHaus' NORFED group and several others try to bring in fortunes by selling antigovernment theories and products to gullible Patriots.
Many antigovernment fugitives remain free despite manhunts that have lasted years.
The number of anti-government groups drops, but their racism is mounting.
The bizarre story of the Louisiana-based 'sovereign' Washitaw Nation might be funny if it weren't for investigations of its possible financial crimes.
The principals of Greater Ministries, a Florida 'church' that promised to double investors' money, face federal charges.
A federal judge, angered at the financial scams of the Montana Freemen, sentences the group's leaders to long terms.
A South Carolina college student who leads a neo-Nazi group denies his Jewish ancestry.
A leading analyst of the far right warns of the rising tide of white nationalism.
The antigovernment Patriot movement is revealed most fully in its publications.
In the recent aftermath of some senseless murders, details are emerging that one part of the puzzle was the influence of white supremacy. Another influence may have been the Internet and the extreme music subculture.
In the aftermath of the widely publicized murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming last year, authorities are reporting a rising number of violent crimes against gays.
'Farm Belt Führer' Gary 'Gerhard' Lauck, for decades one of the largest distributors of neo-Nazi propaganda, has returned to the U.S. after his release from German prison.
The first comprehensive study on violent crime and Native Americans finds that Native Americans are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime than any other group.
The Center secured an order restraining the Aryan Nations from selling its Idaho compound while a Center civil suit proceeds against the neo-Nazi group.
Interracial couples are the target of threats and violence in an outbreak of Skinhead violence in Florida.
Chevie Kehoe and his brother Cheyne were leading players in what prosecutors describe as a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government.
A hate group leader's application to be a lawyer raises important First Amendment questions.
Seeing a war against Christian whites, extremists are taking up the Serbian cause.
NORFED, an antigovernment group dedicated to tax evasion and protest, has recently unveiled its own currency — and has attracted the attention of the federal government and many states.
