An unnamed informant told the FBI that the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and other individuals were part of the scheme involving “extorting money from various rap music stars via death threats,” which prompted the Bureau to begin an investigation that October, per the FBI report (via Muckrock). The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit that tracks hate groups, calls JDL an extremist group responsible for “countless” terrorist attacks in the U.S., per SPLC.
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The scheme allegedly went like this: The JDL would call in anonymous death threats to the victim. They would then offer to protect the victim for a fee and bring them and their family to a secure location where “gun-toting bodyguards” would watch over them, per the FBI report. The JDL would then convince the victim they’d worked out a deal with the person making the threats. After the victim paid the Zionist organization for its protective services, the threats would end.
