Oops. There is a name.
On Tuesday, the New York Post reported on a DOJ filing details how an individual identified only as “Employee-2” and described as someone “who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project” maintained a “romantic relationship” with an informant identified as F-9 who was embedded in the neo-Nazi group National Alliance.
Employee-2 and F-9 “shared a house and two bank accounts,” according to the government, and the former funneled a total of $1.2 million to the latter, including an estimated $140,000 from SPLC’s operating account to joint bank accounts the two shared. “This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts,” the indictment says. Employee-2 “then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.” At the same time, F-9 allegedly raised money for National Alliance to “carry out its extremist activities.”
The Post concluded that Employee-2 is none other than Heidi Beirich, an SPLC “fascism expert” who held the position the indictment describes from 2012 to 2019. It notes that Beirich is the author of a 2015 article on the National Alliance that matches the indictment’s allegation that Employee-2 wrote such an article based on material stolen from the group’s headquarters the year before. A different informant was allegedly paid off to take the blame for the theft.
“Fascism expert”?