Aryan Republican Army ( ARA ) , also dubbed " The Midwest Bank bandits " by the FBI and law-enforcement were a white nationalist terrorist organization , who robbed a series of 22 banks in the Midwest from 1994 to 1996 spearheaded by frontman Peter Kevin Langan . The gang who had links to Neo-Nazism and white supremacism , were alleged to have conspired with convicted terrorist Timothy McVeigh in the months before the Oklahoma City bombing terrorist attack . Although never legally acknowledged , many theorists believe the ARA funneled robbery money to help fund the bombing as a direct response to the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges
Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing
Aryan Republican Army