GUILTY! 3 U.S. Citizens and 3 Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Conspiring to Use U.S. Citizens as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government. “Russia’s foreign intelligence service (FSB) allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights – freedoms Russia denies its own citizens – to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.A federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, returned a superseding indictment charging four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals with working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to conduct a multi-year foreign malign influence campaign in the United States.
UPDATE December 16, 2024, GUILTY; The Uhuru Three and their supporters walked out of federal court chanting, “not one day. Not one dime.” This comes two years after the FBI raided the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg. That raid led to the arrest and conviction of founder Omali Yeshitela (Black Panther), members Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel. The U.S. government said the three conspired with the founder of the anti-globalization movement of Russia. They were convicted of that charge but acquitted of the more serious charge of acting as agents of a foreign government. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — The Uhuru Three and their supporters walked out of federal court chanting, “not one day. Not one dime.” This comes two years after the FBI raided the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg. That raid led to the arrest of founder Omali Yeshitela, members Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel.
Among other conduct, the superseding indictment alleges that the Russian defendants recruited, funded and directed U.S. political groups to act as unregistered illegal agents of the Russian government and sow discord and spread pro-Russian propaganda; the indicted intelligence officers, in particular, participated in covertly funding and directing candidates for local office within the United States.
Moreover, from at least November 2014 until July 2022, Ionov allegedly engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States. As a part of the campaign, Ionov allegedly recruited members of political groups within the United States, including the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement (collectively, the APSP) in Florida, Black Hammer in Georgia and a political group in California (referred to in the superseding indictment as U.S. Political Group 3), to participate in the influence campaign and act as agents of Russia in the United States, including the following indicted defendants: 1). Omali Yeshitela, (ex-con Joe Waller) a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the chairman and founder of the APSP, he is former Black Panther member.
2). Penny J. Hess, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, she served as the leader of a component of the APSP;
3). Jesse Nevel, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as a member of a component of the APSP;
4). Augustus C. Romain Jr., aka Gazi Kodzo, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Atlanta, who served as a leader of the APSP and a founder of Black Hammer in Georgia.
One focus of Ionov’s alleged influence operation was to create the appearance of American popular support for Russia’s annexation of territories in Ukraine. For example, in May 2020, Ionov allegedly sent a request he stated was from “Russia, the Donetsk People’s Republic” – an apparent reference to a Russian-occupied region in eastern Ukraine – to Yeshitela and members of other U.S. political groups to make statements in support of the independence of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russian-backed breakaway state in eastern Ukraine. Ionov later allegedly touted to the FSB that Yeshitela’s video-recorded statement of support was the first time that “American nonprofit organizations congratulated citizens” of the occupied region.

COMMUNISTS IN ST PETE FL: The UHURU movement in St Pete is a Pro-Communist organization run by ex-Black panther Chairman Omali Yeshitela aka ex-con Joe Waller. Bubba Clem and his co-hosts called on the FBI to investigate and shut down the Uhuru Movement 12 years ago, about time! The Uhuru Movement is a worldwide organization, under the leadership of African People's Socialist Party, Communism. A Tampa-based grand jury formally charged a Russian national with spearheading a multi-year influence campaign using U.S. political groups to spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in elections, including those in St. Petersburg. The jurors' 24-page indictment was unsealed Friday, detailing a conspiracy prosecutors say played out over seven years. Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who is a resident of Moscow, faces a charge of conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents of the Russian government, according to a DOJ news release.
MONEY TALKS CITIZENSHIP WALKS: Pro Russia Communist sympathizer comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion (uses two different names), who ran for mayor and is now the leader of the St. Pete Uhuru group, led a press conference. Comrade Eritha Cainion defended Russia, saying the U.S. and other "world Colonial powers have been collaborating against Russia for well into the early 1900s." Comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion has prior arrests for disorderly conduct and resisting the Police without violence.
Comrade Akile Anai aka Eritha Akile Cainion, who ran for City Council of St Pete in 2016 and 2017, needs to get on the next boat to Cuba where she will fit right in. Apparently the Russian Govt was financing a local UHURU candidate for City Council of St Pete in 2017. Gee I wonder who that was? “We can have relationships with whoever we want to make this revolution possible,” said Eritha “Akile” Cainion, later adding, “We are in support of Russia.” Omali Yeshitela, a longtime leader of the St. Petersburg Uhuru Movement, said he and his wife were handcuffed and taken out of a home in St. Louis at gunpoint Friday morning. Many innocent people who have escaped the Uhuru Organization have been mentally scarred even to the point of suicide. Omali Yeshitela and his UHURU organization have a long track record of mentally abusing, scamming, harassing, and slumlording, the very people they say they fight for, the poor Black.
The FBI confirmed its raid Friday morning at the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg is connected to the alleged conspiracy. Agents carried out a court-authorized warrant at the Uhuru House, located at 1245 18th Ave. S., which is the Florida-based headquarters of a Black international socialist group. They were seen carrying out unidentified boxes for hours. The Uhuru House is home to the Uhuru Movement, which is part of the African People's Socialist Party, according to The Associated Press. 60′s Radical Penny Hess Leader of Omali Yeshitela’s APSC In St Pete Writes “The bullet not the ballot is the best way for the black man in America to gain power”. The African Socialist Party’s ultimate aim, however, is worldwide socialist revolution and the “onward progress of communism” to liberate black people everywhere.
FBI Raids Uhuru House St Pete Links to Russia and Interfere with US Elections, Bubba the Love Sponge and PI Bill Warner told you they were Communists 12 Yeas Ago. On February 25, 2010, Clem played clips of Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaking at a rally in St. Petersburg after the police murder of Hydra Lacy, an African who allegedly killed two cops and wounded another during the police invasion of his home on January 24, 2011. "Article 2 of the African People’s Socialist Party platform calls for the immediate exemption of all blacks from U.S. taxes. The sixth article calls for the immediate release of all “Africans” from U.S. prisons. All blacks are in prison “due to decisions, laws and circumstances which were created by aliens and foreigners for their own benefit and as a means of genocidal colonialist control".
Bubba Clem and his co-hosts called on the FBI to investigate and shut down the Uhuru Movement. “The Mayor should be going to speak to the FBI,” said one of Clem’s co-hosts. They also called on the IRS to investigate the Uhuru Movement’s financial records. After playing the clip of the Chairman speaking, Clem said, “Wouldn’t you just love it if the boys rolled up during one of these little meetings and they just cuffed and stuffed him?” Chairman Omali Yeshitela went on to speak on our “communist core” as a Party. He said “communism is the destruction of a social system built on exploitation.”
“Private Investigator” Participates in Campaign of Attack Against Uhuru Movement. It has also come to the attention of Uhuru News that a private investigator named Bill Warner has been spying on the Uhuru Movement. Warner is based in Sarasota, FL and runs a blog to document his work as a private investigator. In the past week, Warner (who you can learn more about here) has posted a blog entry about the Uhuru Movement at least once a day, including personal details about the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
The St Pete UHURU Movement targeted me Bill Warner private investigator for assassination 12 years ago St Pete UHURU Leader Joe Waller Calls for Protest ...St Pete UHURU Leader Joe Waller Calls for Protest and Violence After Ferguson Supreme Court Decision They Support Cop Killers Hydra Lacy and Christopher Dorner.
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