.looks like i was rt, on the timeframe  this is so complex imagine how many yrs they've been working on this!! these organized-crime and complex conspiracy cases routinely take many years from the first serious leads to indictment. (think Guiliani's RICO) so this one had to have started before Kash and Bondi. looks like Comey would've been the one to start this n handed it off to Wray

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche explicitly said (during the announcement with FBI Director Kash Patel) that the investigation into the SPLC** “started years ago**, but was shuttered during President Joe Biden’s term.”

 2014–2023, Comey in the chair for the start of it, Wray for the majority of it, and the probe itself predating the current team but getting shuttered somewhere in 2021–2025.  Comey ---> Wray ---> Kash