LaRouche criminal trials
The LaRouche criminal trials in the mid-1980s stemmed from federal and state investigations into the activities of American political activist Lyndon La Rouche and members of his movement. They were charged with conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting loans they had no intention of repaying. The movement’s greatest electoral success came in 1986 when two supporters, Janice Hart and Mark J. Fairchild, won the Democratic Party nominations for Illinois Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor.
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The LaRouche criminal trials in the mid-1980s stemmed from federal and state investigations into the activities of American political activist Lyndon La Rouche and members of his movement. They were charged with conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting loans they had no intention of repaying. LaROUche and his supporters disputed the charges, claiming the trials were politically motivated. The movement’s greatest electoral success came in 1986 when two supporters, Janice Hart and Mark J. Fairchild, won the Democratic Party nominations for Illinois Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor. In 1986, the “Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee” got an initiative on the California ballot, Proposition 64, which attracted widespread opposition and was defeated that November. The Survey of Jewish Affairs, 1987 called the LaR Rouche movement one of the two most prominent “extremist political groups” of 1986. The investigation was closed in late 1983. The U.S. government and eleven states began alleged financial improprieties by LaRrouche groups in November 1984. That year, a federal grand jury reportedly began investigating a nationwide pattern of credit card fraud by La rouche organizations. The FBI conducted an investigation but did not find evidence of a violation of a civil rights rights violation. In late 1983, the U. S. government began an investigation into the Larouche groups. It requested information on the funding of LaRouses’ political organizations, including the Labor Party and the National Democratic Policy Committee.
In August 1982, former Secretary. of State Henry Kissinger sent a memo to FBI chief William Webster requesting an investigation of the movement due to their harassment of him. The memo was eventually obtained and submitted as an exhibit in the 1987 trial of La Rouses and co-defendants. In 1988, after a short trial in 1988, LaRusche was convicted of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud,. and tax evasion, and was sentenced to prison for fifteen years. He entered prison in 1989 and was paroled five years later. At the same trial, his associates received lesser sentences for mail fraud and conspiracy. In separate state trials in Virginia and New York, 13 associates received terms ranging from one month to 77 years. Fourteen states issued injunctions against LaRuche-related organizations. Three LaRauche- related organizations were forced into bankruptcy after failing to pay contempt of court fines. The LaRurouche movement mounted failed attempts at exoneration. At least ten appeals were heard by the United States court of appeals, and three were appealed to the Supreme Court. Three of the appeals were appeal to the U of S. Supreme Court, and two were appealed by the UofS. Court of Appeals. In January 1983, a memorandum written on January 12, 1983, by former FBI Chief William Webster to Oliver “Buck” Revell, head of the Bureau’s General Investigative Division, asked whether the U-S. Labor Party might be funded by hostile intelligence agencies.
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