4 US Black Nationalists Charged With Conspiring With Russian Intelligence in ‘Malign Influence Campaign’

4 US Black Nationalists Charged With Conspiring With Russian Intelligence in ‘Malign Influence Campaign’
The seal of the F.B.I. hangs in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquaters in Washington on March 9, 2007. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Ryan Morgan
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The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three Russian nationals and four U.S. citizens connected to black nationalist movements with taking part in a malign influence campaign in the United States on behalf of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) intelligence agency.

The four U.S. citizens charged are Omali Yeshitela, Penny Joanne Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Augustus C. Romain Jr., aka Gazi Kodzo.