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Posted on 04/21/2026 3:17:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The civil rights group faces charges including wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought by the Justice Department in Alabama, where the organization is based.
The indictment came shortly after SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its program to pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups and gather information on their activities. The group said the program was used to monitor threats of violence and the information was often shared with local and federal law enforcement.
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair said the organization “will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.”
Blanche said the SPLC paid at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America and other extremist groups.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.
He said the SPLC never disclosed to donors details about its informant program. “They’re required to under the laws associated with a nonprofit to have certain transparency and honesty in what they’re telling donors they’re going to spend money on and what their mission statement is and what they’re raising money doing,” he said.
Blanche said the money was passed from the center through two different bank accounts before being loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members of the extremist groups, which also included the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.
The SPLC’s Fair said the...
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‘Bout time
Lol, just like everything the libs do: fake and retarded
“”””alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan””””
I think we know how the media will direct its attention and phrasing.
Im surprised, they seem so reasonable
Manufacturing their purpose.
SORTA LIKE NEWSOM
If they’re just gathering information, that’s protected under Amendment I.
If their informants stirred the pots of hatred, then that’s wrong.
Getting paid to create false evidence to smear organizations. Racketeering, and money laundering to cover the payments to do it.
If their informants did no worse than FBI informants are allowed to do, then the SPLC is probably safe.
So there weren’t any “white supremacists” in Charlottesville, etc. They were all plants by SPLC, FEDs, and other such groups.
Not only that, but from Blanche’s statements, they funded Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler at Charlottesville in 2017. They’re the reason that woman got run over.
This summer is going to be amazing if this keeps up. The libs will spin so hard they’ll drill a hole to China, where they’ll finally feel welcome.
Definitely RICO, but until we see same serious convictions and lengthy prison time for the actual crooks that commit these fraudulent actions everyone’s cynicism is more that justified.
That shxt show needs to be destroyed.
Seems they learned a thing or two from the J6 feds...or maybe it was the other way around....
Anyone else noticing this coincidence??
A lesson to those who claim Patel’s FBI isn’t doing anything.
I zeroed in on that too. “civil rights group”my ass. It is a virulent, communist/progressive anti-American group.
It became a huge money org far beyond what Rush called it — “two guys and a fax machine.”
We’ve been railing against the criminal SPLC on FR for decades.
Bryan Fair, above, interim chief exec said SPLC's confidential sources “risked their lives to infiltrate and inform on radical and violent extremist (read conservative) groups,” and provided the FBI information which “saved lives.” For decades SPLC used civil suits to "combat" white supremacist groups.
20 days in.
Happy now broken record?
Probably not.
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