robert mathews had been in the early formation of the order days had been counterfeiting money on presses and matthews at the time was in the process of trying to recruit additional members. one of those members was an individual he knew from the national alliance by the name of thomas martinez. martinez lived in the philadelphia area and provided u.s. currency that was counterfeit. he was instructed by mathews and others in the order to take those bills and to pass them. when he did, he got caught. he was paid a visit by the secret service and arrested. after they had their initial interview with martinez, they recognized there was something bigger than this few bills of counterfeit that had been passed. so they called the fbi. they said, i ve got a guy here in philadelphia arrested for counterfeiting tore this guy bob matthews.
of the cash that was stolen from that armored car in ukiah. and the list of where that money went changed everything. $300,000 went to a particularly virulent and violent chapter of the ku klux klan in north carolina, another clan leader in california got $250,000, the national alliance, a nazi group based in washington, d.c., they got $50,000. arian nations up in northern idaho, they got $40,000. that one heist, that ukiah armored car heist, it wasn t just a huge multimillion dollar robbery. it was also supposed to fund the start of the next civil war in the united states of america. the guys who robbed that armored car on highway 101 back in 1984, they were part of a neo-nazi gang that called itself the order. and the order is best remembered now for having assassinated this
and some of the money disappeared, was never accounted for again. but when the government filed its indictment the following year after the gang that had pulled off that heist on highway 101 in northern california, the government in its filings said that they had been able to trace some of the cash that was stolen from that armored car in ukiah. and the list of where that money went changed everything. $300,000 went to a particularly veer lent and violent chapter of the ku klux klan in north carolina, another clan leader in california got $250,000, the national alliance, a nazi grouped based in washington, d.c., they got $50,000, the arian nations up in northern idaho, they got $40,000. that one heist, that ukiah armored car heist, it wasn t just a huge multimillion dollar robbery. it was also supposed to fund the
and open a chaer and they would give us money. if we can gather students, we can collect the money to open charters. there s literally we should say there are lots of people in the charter mutual which is a movement you are quite skeptical of, there are people in that movement who are do not like devos because they feel this complete wild west lack of credentialing is tarnishing the broader movement. michigan was criticized by some group called something like the national alliance for authorizers of charter schools saying it michigan has one of the worst laws in the country between t because the charter people who are reputable want to see accountability. betsy devos and her husband actually have us couraged accountability, discouraged supervision. the detroit free press ran a series saying the charter industry in michigan is now a $1 billion a year industry that s unaccountable and unsupervised. unqualified people are running
tarnishing the broader movement. michigan was criticized by some group called something like the national alliance for authorizers of charter schools saying it michigan has one of the worst laws in the country because the charter people who are reputable want to see accountability. betsy devos and her husband actually have us couraged accountability, discouraged supervision. the detroit free press ran a series saying the charter industry in michigan is now a $1 billion a year industry that s unaccountable and unsupervised. unqualified people are running charter schools. and we should say, my sense from the folks i ve talked to about betsdevos, people in education circles, this is a true believer. this is a genuine ideologue who genuinely thinks the entire paradigm, existing paradigm of public education is bankrupt and statused, possibly un-christian. she is a believer in undoing and destroying that.