US EditionSouthern Poverty Law Center Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges Related to Past Use of Paid Informants
Prosecutors say the center hid more than $3 million in payments to informants who infiltrated extremist groups and misled donors about the program.
- 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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The organization defends itself by saying that these are actually informants who were paid to obtain information, and the results were shared with the police.
POLITICS: BREAKING: Major Left-Wing Group Hit with Fraud Claims, White Supremacist and KKK Ties! – Video
The Southern Poverty Law Center is under federal investigation by the Justice Department over its past use of paid informants, including alleged interactions involving white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups. Critics say the probe reinforces longstanding accusations that the organization operated as a partisan group while engaging in controversial tactics tied to extremist networks. FBI Director Patel and Acting AG Blanche Hold Press Conferenc…
The Southern Poverty Law Center was formally charged on Tuesday with federal charges of fraud, in which it is claimed that the agency raised millions of dollars improperly to pay informants in order to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, said Acting Justice Secretary Todd Blanche.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a federal indictment against the civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), for its alleged involvement in activities that, according to the authorities, contradict its declared mission to combat extremism. The indictment of 11 charges filed by a federal grand jury includes six charges of electronic fraud, four charges of false statements to a federally secured banking institution an…
‘MASSIVE!’ Feds indict SPLC for using donor money to pay white supremacists to stage ‘hate crimes’ * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link A federal grand jury in Alabama has delivered an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, the now-scandal ridden activist group that came to fame by suing Ku Klux Klan organizations into bankruptcy. Its next agenda was to incorrectly describe those with beliefs it disliked, Christians with pro-life and traditional marriage views,
Leftist SPLC allegedly funneled $3M to KKK, Nazi groups, DOJ says
In a sweeping indictment, FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the left-leaning nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center of committing fraud to pay members of white supremacist groups.
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