The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that alleged it secretly funneled more than $3 million to members of white supremacist and other extremist groups.
An Alabama grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday with “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering,” according to the DOJ.
The indictment covered the years from 2014 through 2023 and alleged the SPLC paid at least $3 million to at least eight informants affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, the National Socialists Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, the National Socialists Party of America, and the American Front….