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Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges Related to Past Use of Paid Informants
The indictment alleges the nonprofit hid a $3 million informant program from donors while routing money through fake entities, officials said.
- On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire fraud and money laundering, alleging the organization secretly funded extremist groups instead of dismantling them.
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche alleged the SPLC funneled at least $3 million to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups between 2014 and 2023 using shell companies and prepaid cards to conceal payments from donors.
- CEO Bryan Fair promised the SPLC "will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work" while asserting that intelligence gathered from informants saved lives by monitoring violent threats.
- Critics, including FBI Director Kash Patel, have long accused the SPLC of being a "partisan smear machine," intensifying partisan disputes over whether the indictment represents legitimate law enforcement or political targeting.
- The federal indictment threatens the SPLC's legal standing and donor trust, while Patel indicated other organizations could face similar scrutiny as the DOJ continues investigating potential nonprofit misconduct.
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‘It's About Intimidation’: DOJ Indicts Civil Rights Group It Says Illegally Duped Donors By Paying Informants to Infiltrate the KKK and Other Hate Groups
The Department of Justice on Tuesday charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that has for decades investigated and exposed
Media shills asks if 'it's now a federal crime to infiltrate and expose white supremacist groups' · American Wire News
Media shills are engaged in full damage control mode as they desperately try to spin bombshell allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center. In a nutshell, the SPLC has been accused of funding and bolstering racism and extremist groups it had claimed to be fighting. CNN put it another way in an ill-fated post on X, saying the SPLC is under federal investigation for “infiltrating” white supremacist and extremist groups: Southern Poverty L…
The Arsonist on the Payroll: Inside the SPLC Indictment – Jeffrey Lord
The Southern Poverty Law Center spent nearly a decade, prosecutors say, writing checks to the very people it was warning America about. The Alabama nonprofit was charged Tuesday by the Department of Justice with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy. The allegation is simple and startling: between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC quietly routed more than $3 million to at least eight leaders and members of hate groups — including a Ku Kl…
Southern Poverty Law Center fraud indictment raises questions for former board member Jocelyn Benson - The Midwesterner
A federal fraud indictment unveiled Tuesday against the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center is raising obvious questions about Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s involvement. “As a member of their board, did Jocelyn Benson know that donor money was reportedly being used to fund extremism and violence?” Gabe Butzke, spokesman for the conservative Michigan Forward Network, said in a statement. A Tuesday announcement from the U.S. Department of …
Questions raised, media freaks out as US DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Centre
By MICHAEL SLOVANOS ONE of the primary targets of the neo-Marxist Southern Poverty Law Centre, Stewart Rhodes, the US founder of the Oathkeepers group, has questioned motives behind the US Department of Justice’s 11-count indictment of the SPLC. “What I am shocked by though, is that the DOJ is going after them, I’m kind of […] The post Questions raised, media freaks out as US DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Centre appeared first on cairnsnews.o…
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