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Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors
with payments to extremist informants
Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information.
apnews.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.
“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.
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The indictment came shortly after the SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its disbanded informant program to gather intelligence on extremist group 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.
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A program that dated back to the 1980s
The Justice Department alleges the SPLC made false statements to banks in order to set up accounts used to funnel money to informants. The group created bank accounts for fictitious entities such as “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse” that were used to send money from donors to informants, in a scheme to conceal the money’s actual purpose, the indictment alleges.
Prosecutors say the group never disclosed to donors details of the 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,” Blanche said.
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The SPLC has faced intense criticism from conservatives, who have accused it of unfairly maligning right-wing organizations as extremist groups because of their viewpoints. The center regularly condemns Trump’s rhetoric and policies around voting rights, immigration and other issues.
The center came under fresh scrutiny after the assassination last year of conservative activist Charlie Kirk brought renewed attention to its characterization of the group that Kirk founded and led. The center included a section on that group, Turning Point USA, in a report titled “The Year in Hate and Extremism 2024” that described the group as “A Case Study of the Hard Right in 2024.”
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House Republicans hosted a hearing centered on the SPLC in December, saying it coordinated efforts with President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration “to target Christian and conservative Americans and deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech and free association.”
Commentary:
Manufacturing their purpose.
What we do know is that G. Soros has been a big contributor to the SPLC through his Tides Foundation.
Getting paid to create false evidence to smear organizations. Racketeering, and money laundering to cover the payments to do it.
Blanche’s statements say they allegedly 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. Democrats will spin so hard they’ll drill a hole to China, where they’ll finally feel welcome.
So, there weren’t any “white supremacists” in Charlottesville, etc. They were all plants by SPLC, FEDs, and other Leftist groups.
RICO charges are suggested, but until we see some serious convictions and lengthy prison time for the actual crooks that commited these fraudulent actions everyone’s cynicism is more than justified.
