On April 21 federal marshals seized the Washington, D.C., area offices and froze the bank accounts of Fusion magazine and The International Journal of Fusion E ergy, both published by the Fusion Energy Foundation, a LaRouche affiliate. The day before, a federal judge had secretly signed an order placing the foundation, along with three other LaRouche affiliates, into involuntary bankruptcy. Lawyers for the groups say the organizations were financially sound.
In a news conference after the raids, U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson acknowledged that the seizures were a "somewhat extraordinary remedy" but said they were necessary to ensure payment of $21 mil lion in fines levied by a Massachusetts grand jury that had indicted two LaRouche organizations on charges of credit card fraud. A federal judge had cited the four LaRouche affiliates for contempt of court for failing to provide subpoenaed documents to the grand jury.
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