US EditionSouthern Poverty Law Center: Informant program was not kept secret
The civil rights group says officials knew about its informant program and that false public claims could taint a fair trial.
- The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on Tuesday that law enforcement agencies long knew about its informant program, rejecting assertions by Attorney General Todd Blanche that the nonprofit operated without authorities' knowledge.
- Prosecutors indicted the Alabama-based nonprofit last week on fraud and money laundering charges, alleging it funneled more than $3 million to informants who led the KKK, neo-Nazi National Alliance, and other hate groups.
- Lawyers for the group cited three instances where they shared tips with the FBI, including an "event alert" for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a thwarted attack in Las Vegas.
- Alongside a request for a retraction, the organization filed a motion for grand jury transcripts, claiming mischaracterizations by the Justice Department suggest the grand jury was "not merely misled by the government.
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SPLC says its informant program was not kept secret
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court on Tuesday that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that…
SPLC Wants Todd Blanche to Stop Lying
Before being indicted, SPLC repeatedly raised a warning they gave to DOJ about a far right extremist who was trying to get security clearance to work in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a tip that came from an informant. And then Todd Blanche went on TV and claimed SPLC had never passed on information from any informant.
Southern Poverty Law Center wants Todd Blanche to correct 'false' statements about organization
Todd Blanche, acting US attorney general, during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 27, 2026. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge Tuesday to demand that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issue a correction to allegedly “false” statements he made in the aftermath of the indictment of the organization la…
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