An organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) paid people who wanted to leave extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan to stay in them, according to newly filed court documents.
Two individuals informed the SPLC in 2010 that they feared for their safety from other Klan members and wanted to leave the white nationalist movement, after seeing media reports about the SPLC paying to help a person leave an extremist group.
An SPLC employee invited the people to Montgomery, Alabama, and encouraged them to stay in the Klan, according to a superseding indictment filed on June 2. The employee allegedly offered the people $1,200 per month and to cover expenses if they stayed. They agreed….