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Four members of The Order, Jean Craig, [[David Lane (white nationalist)|David Lane]], Bruce Pierce, and Richard Scutari, were [[Indictment|indicted]] on federal charges. However, only Lane and Pierce were convicted, though neither of homicide.<ref name=denverpost>{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12615628 |title=The murder of Alan Berg in Denver: 25 years later |work=Denver Post |date=June 18, 2009 |access-date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> They were instead convicted of [[Racket (crime)|racketeering]], [[Conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]], and violating Berg's [[civil rights]]. Lane was sentenced to 190 years and Pierce was sentenced to 252 years.
Lane was a former [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansman]] who later joined the neo-Nazi [[Christian Identity]] group [[Aryan Nation]]. He steadfastly denied any involvement in Berg's murder, but did he regret that Berg was dead.{{clarify|date=August 2021|reason=Confusing phrasing}} In an interview presented as part of the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]] documentary ''Nazi America: A Secret History'', Lane admitted to calling the show and goading Berg into an exchange and stated: "The only thing I have to say about Alan Berg is, regardless of who did it, he has not mouthed his hate-whitey [[propaganda]] from his 50,000-watt [[Zionism|zionist]] [[pulpit]] for quite a few years".
Lane, incarcerated at the [[Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute|Federal Correctional Complex]] in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], died of an [[epileptic seizure]] at age 68 on May 28, 2007.<ref>[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5561093,00.html White supremacist, talk show host killer dies in prison] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528104447/http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0%2C1299%2CDRMN_15_5561093%2C00.html |date=May 28, 2008 }}</ref> Bruce Pierce, who was incarcerated at the [[Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood|Federal Correctional Complex]] in [[Union County, Pennsylvania]], died of natural causes at age 56 on August 16, 2010.<ref name="denverpost2010" /> Craig and Scutari were convicted of unrelated crimes. The leader of The Order, [[Robert Jay Mathews]], who was believed to have been a lookout in the Berg shooting although it was never proven, was burned to death during a standoff with federal authorities on December 8, 1984, at his home in [[Coupeville, Washington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7921|title=Robert Jay Mathews, founder of the white-supremacist group The Order, is killed during an FBI siege on Whidbey Island on December 8, 1984.|access-date=August 7, 2018}}</ref>
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