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DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to ‘stoke racial hatred’
NY Post ^ | April 21, 2026 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 04/22/2026 12:47:07 AM PDT by Mount Athos

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.

One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period.

Others had affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Aryan Nations, the Nationalist Socialist Party of American Nazis and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.

Several of the informants were also being paid while simultaneously being featured in SPLC publications — including on its public-facing “Extremist File” webpage — as members of the hate groups.

“The SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups, with the goal of dismantling these groups,” Blanche told reporters.

“As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” he said.

FBI Director Kash Patel added that the “widespread, decade-long multi-million dollar fraud” — which stretched from 2014 to 2023 — was concealed through a “banking network,” “shell companies,” and other fictitious entities.

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1 posted on 04/22/2026 12:47:07 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

If getting paid requires that you fight racism, you damn well better find some racism to fight. By any means necessary, as the Malcolm X used to say.


2 posted on 04/22/2026 12:54:19 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Mount Athos

WEASELS! They deserve more punishment than this.


3 posted on 04/22/2026 12:57:40 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Mount Athos

Remember, Stalin was appointed the People’s Commissar for Nationalities in the first Communist government in the USSR (1917). He used that office to stoke ethnic (read: racial) tensions between the various ethnic groups within the country, of which there were and still are many, in order to gain control for the Bolsheviks.

The SPLC is being used the same way by the same sort of people.


4 posted on 04/22/2026 1:01:11 AM PDT by Belteshazzar
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To: Mount Athos

Love your BIO: thanks !


5 posted on 04/22/2026 1:06:17 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: Mount Athos

This is why I don’t donate to anything but FR. You just don’t know what is going on with the money, who you are really giving it to. Too easy to tell people it’s for some good cause. What proof is there ?


6 posted on 04/22/2026 1:19:01 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Mount Athos

> decade-long multi-million dollar fraud

A single decade? Doubtful.


7 posted on 04/22/2026 1:47:37 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Mount Athos

(DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for
paying white supremacist groups $3M to ‘stoke racial hatred’)

Put all of the co-conspirators into a
Federal Prison for a long, long, long time


8 posted on 04/22/2026 1:53:46 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Beowulf9

I think you are right. When people die they donate money to these big organizations, many grossly inefficient with huge exec and board pay, some even more corrupt. Better to donate directly and carefully while you are alive perhaps.


9 posted on 04/22/2026 2:01:53 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

hold up!...

We’ve been told its impossible to get a grand jury to indict in DC!! I say the article is BS!!

/s...


10 posted on 04/22/2026 2:23:26 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: sit-rep

Indictment is in Alabama.


11 posted on 04/22/2026 2:26:33 AM PDT by Bruce Buckley
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To: Mount Athos
In modern America, white supremacy is a rare and valuable commodity.

So valuable, in fact, it costs organizations like SPLC millions of dollars a year to manufacture it.

12 posted on 04/22/2026 2:30:25 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: Mount Athos

This is “yuuge: news.

The SPLO has been a thorn in our side, and a wolf in sheep’s Clothing for years.

Michael Savage has been foaming at the mouth (figuratively) over them for 2 decades, claims they are a communist front group sowing subversion and attacking any conservative group they can.

Of course he has been correct but now he is finally being proven so.


13 posted on 04/22/2026 3:14:57 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Mount Athos

btt


14 posted on 04/22/2026 4:08:11 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Mount Athos

A smoking gun for sure…


15 posted on 04/22/2026 4:15:20 AM PDT by Shady (#EnoughIsEnough, and we have HAD ENOUGH!)
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To: Mount Athos

I bet the Patriot Front posers are on the list.


16 posted on 04/22/2026 4:24:26 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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