They also spread around their money to try to obscure their donations to the more nefarious causes. I'm somewhat reminded of the Agatha Christie story "The ABC Murders" where only one of the victims was the true target the others were unfortunate people randomly chosen to cause the police to run around looking for a serial killer and the murder had a patsy set up as well. A similar plot was used in Law & Order where only one of the three victims was the actual target but because the three victims were black, latino, and asian the cops were initially chasing a suspected white supremacist for the first half of the episode.

They also spread around their money to try to obscure their donations to the more nefarious causes.