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Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« on: April 21, 2026, 07:04:24 pm »
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.
5:35 PM · Apr 21, 2026

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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2026, 07:05:03 pm »
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Incredible: the supply of right-wing "hate" was so low that a left-wing "anti-hate" group had to subsidize it, so it could then raise money to fight it. This is Thomas Sowell's "life support" theory in action. 10/10 work.

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If these allegations are true, the SPLC is likely to be the largest single funder of white nationalist extremism in the United States. One hopes it will mark an extremely poetic ending for the group, which, one hopes, will end in bankruptcy and, for some, prison.
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2026, 07:06:21 pm »
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Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
For Immediate Release
Office of Public Affairs

Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America

A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.  The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated this case with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups - even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes. That is illegal – and this is an ongoing investigation against all individuals involved.” ...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2026, 07:06:51 pm »

By  COLLIN BINKLEY, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and REBECCA BOONE
Updated 5:33 PM CDT, April 21, 2026
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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 Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with payments of 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.

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.

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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2026, 07:07:10 pm »
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2026, 07:08:14 pm »
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2026, 07:10:22 pm »
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2026, 07:15:40 pm »
What a shock... Not... Leftists being leftists...
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2026, 07:24:27 pm »
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-says-southern-poverty-law-center-funneled-3m-white-supremacist-extremist-groups

DOJ says Southern Poverty Law Center funneled $3M+ to white supremacist and extremist groups

DOJ alleges SPLC used shell accounts and prepaid cards to funnel funds to extremist-linked individuals

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Blanche said the SPLC was paying roughly $270,000 to a member of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, that resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more.

He added that between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least $3 million to eight people, three of whom were allegedly affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, the Nationalist Socialist Party of America Nazis and the American Front.

"It was doing the exact opposite of what its told its donors it was doing, not dismantling extremism, but funding it to carry out this scheme," Blanche said. "SPLC created bank accounts in the name of at least five completely fictitious organizations that had no bona fide employees or legitimate business purpose."
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2026, 07:25:46 pm »
The Southern Poverty Law Center was creating racism and stirring up trouble so they could amp up their fundraising.

In short, because they can't find any actual racism they had to go out and invent it.  9999hair out0000
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2026, 07:25:51 pm »
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2026, 07:31:12 pm »
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was creating racism and stirring up trouble so they could amp up their fundraising.

In short, because they can't find any actual racism they had to go out and invent it. 9999hair out0000

Right straight out of our government's playbook. Why would anyone actually solve a problem and put themselves out of business by doing so?
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2026, 07:33:37 pm »
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Right straight out of our government's playbook. Why would anyone actually solve a problem and put themselves out of business by doing so?

The SPLC made a lot of money by leveling false accusations at various people and companies and then accepting "donations" as penance for the supposed crimes.

The word we're looking for here is extortion.
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2026, 07:37:30 pm »
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The SPLC made a lot of money by leveling false accusations at various people and companies and then accepting "donations" as penance for the supposed crimes.

The word we're looking for here is extortion.

 :yowsa: Just as our government creates problems and pretends to fix them all the while exacerbating them. LBJ's Great Society programs being exhibit A.
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2026, 07:37:39 pm »
SPLC bankrolled the Charlottesville “white supremacy” riot.

https://twitter.com/BlakeSNeff/status/2046718611247730996
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2026, 07:45:01 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on April 21, 2026, 07:04:24 pm
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC").

Awesome!!  :hands:
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
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Quote from: MeganC on April 21, 2026, 07:25:46 pm
The Southern Poverty Law Center was creating racism and stirring up trouble so they could amp up their fundraising.

In short, because they can't find any actual racism they had to go out and invent it.  9999hair out0000
Oh, just like the Democrat Party.
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #19 on: Today at 06:38:05 am »
So the truth finally comes out.  The SPLC has been laundering donations to fund the very groups, some entirely fictious, that it purports to fight, just to keep itself alive and the money rolling in.

They all need to go to jail.
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Re: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center
« Reply #20 on: Today at 07:49:01 am »
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The SPLC was simultaneously funding violent extremists, raising money to fight those extremists, and advising law enforcement on how to arrest those extremists. Insane corruption.

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The excuse offered by the left is that the SPLC was merely paying informants as part of their investigations into “hate groups.” This is bullshit of course but it also goes to show how groups like SPLC have operated as quasi government agencies despite having no legal authority to do so. We have been living under the tyranny not just of unelected judges and bureaucrats but also unelected activist organizations.


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