Date: August 22, 2023 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov Tulsa, OK — The final defendant prosecuted as part of the Northern District of Oklahoma's case against the United Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) – a violent white supremacist gang – for racketeering and drug trafficking charges, was sentenced today. Johnny R. Jameson of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to three years and two months in prison. He is currently serving life without parole for a state conviction. According to court documents, the UAB operates both inside prisons and outside prison walls and funds itself through drug trafficking to promote white supremacist hatred. The Northern District of Oklahoma targeted the gang's violent and drug trafficking activities, which led to the conviction of 18 UAB members. The UAB, and Jameson, specifically, murdered a Black Oklahoma of Department of Corrections inmate. Additionally, UAB members engaged in multiple other acts of murder, drug trafficking, and money laundering both inside and outside prison facilities. "The UAB is a violent gang in Oklahoma prisons. Their crimes bleed into communities beyond the prison walls and include 10's of millions of dollars in drug trafficking and money laundering, 100,000's of pounds in methamphetamine distribution, arson, kidnapping, and murder," said U.S. Attorney Clinton Johnson. "This was an arduous lengthy investigation and I want to thank the many partner agencies that diligently worked to get convictions on all 18 defendants in this indictment." "The financial expertise of IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Special Agents is critical in detecting and tracing the money laundering transactions of criminal organizations," said Christopher J. Altemus Jr., CI Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office. "These cases are a direct result of the excellent partnership between law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney's office in combating the UAB criminal organization. I am extremely proud of the CI special agents who used their unique financial expertise to help unravel this complex fraud and money laundering scheme involving 18 defendants prosecuted over the last five years. This joint effort demonstrates CI's resolve to serving our communities by investigating criminal activities negatively impacting citizens of the United States." "The success of this joint investigation is clear proof to criminal gangs that they are not beyond the reach of the law," said Lester R. Hayes Jr., Special Agent in Charge Homeland Security Investigations Dallas. "We will continue pursuing transnational criminal organizations, using every resource and law enforcement partnership available for the sake of justice and public safety." In many cases, the defendants' federal sentences will run concurrently to state terms of imprisonment yet to be fulfilled. The additional defendants in the case were sentenced to the following prison terms, or probation where noted: Christopher Baldwin, 22 years Matthew Abrego, 10 years Jeremy Anderson, aka JC, 22 years Dustin Baker, 20 years Michael Clinton, aka Mikey Clinton, 15 years Eddie Funkhouser, over 12 years. Elizabeth Lewis, aka Beth Lewis, over eight years Charles McCully, aka Mark McCulley, aka Charles M. McCulley, 15 years Dillon Rose, over 17 years Randy Seaton, over seven years Brandy M. Simmons, three years of probation James Taylor, aka JT, 20 years Robert W. Zeidler, aka Rob Z, 22 years Brandon Zimmerlee, 10 years Lisa Lara, three years of probation Sisney Large, over six years Richard Young, aka Richard Pearce, five years U.S. Attorney Clinton J. Johnson for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Chief Jim Lee of the IRS Criminal Investigation (CI), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made the announcement. The CI, HSI, Oklahoma Department of Corrections, and state and local law enforcement partners investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Dennis Fries and David Nasar for the Northern District of Oklahoma and Trial Attorney Ken Kaplan of the Criminal Division's Organized Crime and Gang Section prosecuted the case.
