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The FBI's newly created Joint Mission Center has shifted from intelligence collection into active financial investigations, identifying suspects and uncovering what Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia called "nefarious" funding sources behind violent interstate protests, Raia told Fox News Digital exclusively at FBI headquarters.
The center brings together counterterrorism, cyber, counterintelligence and financial investigators alongside specialists from the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service to trace funding streams and build prosecutable cases.
Inside the Joint Mission Center's Financial Push Established earlier this year as part of the Trump administration's FBI budget, the Joint Mission Center was designed as a clearinghouse for coordinating the bureau's response to what officials have termed a "hybrid threat." FBI Director Kash Patel named Raia co-deputy director in January, and by March the center was operational.
Raia said agents are working to separate illicit funding from legitimate financial activity — a task complicated by the way suspect money moves through nonprofit structures.
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