A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against four Ford County men, charging three of them with attempted arson in the Nov. 7 attempted bombing of a women's health clinic in Champaign.

A news release from the U.S Attorney General’s Office for Central Illinois states 47-year-old Michael Hari, 22-year-old Joe Morris, 29-year-old Michael McWhorter, and 18-year-old Ellis Mack, all of Clarence, had been previously charged in March only with possession of a machine gun, even as authorities suspected the three older men were involved in the attempted bombing of Women's Health Practice.

Hari, Morris and McWhorter have also been charged in Minnesota in the August 2017 bombing of a mosque there.
The superseding indictment also alleges that the four men violated the Hobbs Act, which accuses them of "conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats and violence.”

Hari is believed to be the leader of a homegrown terrorism group called the White Rabbits. He has also been charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, accused of possessing four AR-style rifles without serial numbers and four 12-gauge shotguns.

The indictment accuses the four men of forming the group in August and meeting in Clarence to plan various robberies and bombings.

The men remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshall’s Service.

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