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The Justice Department and FBI have a brand new communist financier of their crosshairs for alleged monetary crimes: James “Fergie” Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy inheritor to the Cox cable empire.
On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the posh island of Ibiza, in response to a world arrest warrant, in line with sources. Chambers is allegedly wished for cash laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests. The transnational community he helped fund and assist is kicking in to forged him as a sufferer of the Trump administration’s “fascism,” whereas critics are cheering the arrest as lengthy overdue.
A spokesman for Spain’s Balearic Islands police department, which incorporates Ibiza in its jurisdiction, informed Fox Information Digital {that a} U.S. citizen was arrested on fees tied to a world arrest warrant Friday underneath a world arrest warrant in search of his extradition to the USA. The spokesman didn’t affirm the identification of the citizen, however sources informed Fox Information Digital that the person is Chambers.
Fergie Chambers poses for footage in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
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The police spokesman added that the person is being held on the central jail in Ibiza pending a judicial choice that might be performed by videoconference. Supporters now plan a “Free Fergie Chambers” protest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. exterior the jail in Ibiza, demonstrating towards “DEL FASCISMO DE TRUMP,” or the “TRUMP’S FASCISM IN PERSECUTING DEFENDERS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.”
A spokesperson for the FBI declined to remark. Chambers and his representatives could not be reached for remark.
A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist pursuits that search the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise of political Islam, communism and a brand new Palestinian state.
Common view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Picture for Fox Information Digital)
Chambers’ ideological comrades leaked information of the detention to trusted colleagues on far-left media platforms – a few of which Chambers funds – and his communist, socialist and Islamist comrades are flooding social media to border the narrative across the arrest because the Trump administration unfairly focusing on Chambers.
The arrest is a big transfer by the Trump administration because it targets far-left financiers allegedly engaged in supporting political violence. On this case, as in different investigations, federal authorities are following the cash and investigating potential tax and monetary crimes.
FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia lately informed Fox Information Digital that investigators on the FBI’s Joint Mission Heart have recognized topics tied to financing violent protest exercise and have been constructing prosecutable circumstances.
Common view of Centro Penitenciario de Ibiza, in Ibiza, Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Picture for Fox Information Digital)
Like Neville Roy Singham, the American tech tycoon accused of financing communist and far-left nonprofit organizations from his base in Shanghai, China, Chambers has made a reputation for himself as a monetary backer of anti-Israel and anti-American causes around the globe. As reported completely at Fox Information Digital, the Justice Division has launched a grand jury investigation into Singham for alleged cash laundering and different monetary improprieties. It’s presently prosecuting the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart for alleged cash laundering, financial institution fraud and wire fraud.
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Fergie Chambers walks close to a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers walks close to a mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers performs the Muslim prayer in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Fergie Chambers smokes a cigarette whereas posing for photographs in Tunis, Tunisia. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Chambers was born in 1985 in Brooklyn as James Cox Chambers Jr. to his father, James Cox Chambers, and mom, actress Lauren Hamilton. He’s the great-grandson of James M. Cox, a former Ohio governor, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee and founding father of the media firm that turned Cox Enterprises. Forbes estimates the Cox household empire is price about $27 billion.
Chambers is now the estranged inheritor of Cox Enterprises, strolling away from the household firm in 2023 with a payout estimated at about $250 million after a falling out together with his household over the corporate’s assist for Atlanta’s controversial public security coaching middle, recognized by critics as “Cop Metropolis.” In April, a grand jury indicted three alleged Antifa-linked protesters accused of throwing firebombs on the normal contractor of the Atlanta police coaching middle.
Protestors rush a police line throughout an illustration towards the so-called “Cop Metropolis” coaching facility in Atlanta, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (Mike Stewart/AP Picture)
Chambers overtly redirected his fortune into communist collectives, bail and authorized underwriting and teams engaged in hard-edged protest and property disruption.
Raised principally in Brooklyn after his mother and father divorced, Chambers attended Saint Ann’s College and later enrolled at Bard Faculty however did not graduate. He briefly labored for a Cox Enterprises subsidiary earlier than working gyms in Georgia and later turned more and more concerned in left-wing activism following the anti-police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and the demonstrations in Standing Rock, S.D., in 2016 towards an oil pipeline.
Round 2019, Chambers established the “Berkshire Communists” collective in Alford, Mass., in a rich nook of western Massachusetts, the place he constructed a commune, operated the Berkshire Individuals’s Health club and launched a publication referred to as “Fight Liberalism.”
Police detain Palestine Motion activists on the entrance of APCO Worldwide workplaces in London, the place the constructing is roofed in pink paint, on Sept. 3, 2024. (Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu)
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks, Chambers turned one of the vital distinguished monetary backers of “Palestine Motion,” later renamed “Unity of Fields,” whereas additionally funding authorized protection efforts for activists concerned in anti-Israel demonstrations and direct-action campaigns in the UK and the U.S.
He praised the Oct. 7 Hamas assaults as a “second of hope and inspiration,” informed Mom Jones that “crucial factor for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US” and stated, “I chant demise to America day-after-day.”
Native and nationwide reporting place him behind the “Cease Cop Metropolis” opposition, bail after occupations and protests towards Elbit Techniques, an organization that provides services to Israel, in Merrimack, N.H., and the U.Ok., and ongoing authorized assist for networks within the U.S. and U.Ok. led by the controversial “Palestine Motion.”
Communist tattoos are seen on Fergie Chambers’ palms and fingers whereas he sits in a restaurant in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
After Alford, Mass., shut his Berkshire Individuals’s Health club for zoning violations and law-enforcement scrutiny intensified, Chambers relocated to Tunis, within the North African nation of Tunisia.
In early February 2024, Chambers was photographed in his newly adopted metropolis of Tunis within the North African nation of Tunisia, framing his narrative as a pious Muslim convert, with a red-and-white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf draped over his shoulders, a black Muslim prayer cap on his head and a small beard on his face, a practice that follows the sunnah, or follow, of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
The picture shoot included photographs of Chambers in Muslim prayer, at one level together with his palms on his chest and at one other level in “ruku” place, bent ahead together with his palms on his knees, looking at a degree of focus in entrance of him. In different photographs, he walked by an area mosque, sat behind the wheel of a automotive with orange and inexperienced Muslim prayer beads, referred to as “tazbi,” hanging on the rearview mirror. A pair of ornamental boxing gloves with “RUSSIA” throughout the wrists, positioned on a red-and-white kefiyyeh unfold alongside the dashboard.
Fergie Chambers walks his canine in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb. 8, 2024. (Chedly Ben Ibrahim/NurPhoto)
Unconventional for conventional Muslims, who do not typically have canine as pets due to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that bars canine as pets within the dwelling, Chambers additionally was photographed smoking a cigarette and strolling on the seaside with two small canine who appear like bulldogs. He additionally wore tattoos, together with a sickle-and-barbells on his left hand.
By Could 2026, his social media posts positioned him in Ireland. This month, the self-declared communist vacationed among the many rich in Ibiza, is now sitting in jail.
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