The Justice Department has indicted a Russian national for allegedly controlling three U.S. groups that sought to “sow discord” in American politics
The allegations against Ionov include exercising “direction and control” over a California-based political group “whose primary goal was to promote California’s secession from the United States.” Ionov allegedly partially funded the group’s efforts and attempted to direct them to “physically enter the governor’s office” during a 2018 protest at the California State Capitol.
In March of 2020, Ionov allegedly paid for members of another political group he was involved with to to travel from Atlanta to San Francisco to “protest at the headquarters of a social media company that had placed content restrictions on posts supportingIvanov is also alleged to have controlled a third political group based in Florida, funding a “four-city protest tour” in 2016 meant to “foster discord within the United States.
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