Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center

[mountaineer]

U.S. Department of Justice
@TheJusticeDept
🚨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

[mountaineer]

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@christopherrufo
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.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@christopherrufo
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.

[mountaineer]

DOJ press release:

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

[mystery-ak]

By  COLLIN BINKLEY, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and REBECCA BOONE
Updated 5:33 PM CDT, April 21, 2026
Leer en español


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.

more
https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2046704517119377577

[Mod2]

Merged topics

[mystery-ak]

Merged topics

Mod2...boy were you fast...I was just about to merged these two threads..lol

[DB]

What a shock... Not... Leftists being leftists...

[MeganC]

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

(EXCERPT)

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."

[MeganC]

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. 

[Mod2]

Mod2...boy were you fast...I was just about to merged these two threads..lol

Remember me at annual bonus time!

[Bigun]

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.

Right straight out of our government's playbook. Why would anyone actually solve a problem and put themselves out of business by doing so?

[MeganC]

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.

[Bigun]

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.

  Just as our government creates problems and pretends to fix them all the while exacerbating them. LBJ's Great Society programs being exhibit A.

[mountaineer]

SPLC bankrolled the Charlottesville “white supremacy” riot.

https://twitter.com/BlakeSNeff/status/2046718611247730996

[Ghost Bear]

U.S. Department of Justice
@TheJusticeDept
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC").

Awesome!! 

[mystery-ak]

Remember me at annual bonus time!

 

[Hoodat]

SWEET

[Smokin Joe]

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. 

Oh, just like the Democrat Party.

[Timber Rattler]

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.

[mountaineer]

Some reaction on X:

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@christopherrufo
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.

Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
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.

https://twitter.com/SKDoubleDub33/status/2046720304584483168

[mountaineer]

Remember this moment in SPLC history?

https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2046788319804281040

[mountaineer]

The SPLC's "Intelligence Project" was run by Antifa?

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2046747886390583780

[rangerrebew]

DOJ Charges Far-Left SPLC with Fraud, Money Laundering, ‘Manufacturing Racism to Justify Its Existence’
 
Elizabeth Weibel21 Apr 20265,145
 
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was charged with fraud and money laundering involving “violent extremist groups.”


In a press release from the Office of Public Affairs for the DOJ it was revealed that the SPLC was charged by an Alabama grand jury “with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.”

According to the press release, an indictment says that “starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan”:

According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/21/doj-charges-far-left-splc-with-fraud-money-laundering-manufacturing-racism-to-justify-its-existence/

[rangerrebew]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/21/splc-paid-ku-klux-klan-doj-indictment-claims/

[mountaineer]

Before the 2020 election, Biden gave a speech at Gettysburg saying he decided to run for office again after the Charlottesville far-right rally in 2017. The rally was a galvanizing moment for leftists and Democrats, who campaigned and fundraised off it for years, claiming they needed power and money to stop white supremacy.  ...  In the DOJ indictment against the SPLC, it was revealed that in addition to allegedly funding neo-Nazis and KKK members, the SPLC bankrolled one of the leaders of the Charlottesville rally and supervised his “racist” messaging. ...

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2046882307198402747

[Bigun]

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. " -- Ariel Durant

Truer words than these have never been spoken!

[mountaineer]

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

Read thread: https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2047064924262908170

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Now indict those leaders of the SPLC that broke the law.

[verga]

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. 

Disciples of Obama. 

[Free Vulcan]

Love it because SPLC is the gold standard for Leftists and many have their dirty fingers in it.

Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of indictment!

[Bigun]

Disciples of Obama. 

More like teachers of Obama. The SPLC has been up to no good for a LONG time!

[rmc51]

Remember Tim Cook Boasting Apple Was Giving $1M to Southern Poverty Law Center? We Do!
Joseph Vazquez April 22nd, 2026 2:54 PM
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2026/04/22/remember-tim-cook-boasting-apple-was-giving-1m-southern

Quote:
Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook’s resignation came at a funny time.

The Department of Justice announced April 21 that the leftist extremist Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on multiple fraud charges for financing the very white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups it was claiming for years to be crusading against, to the tune of $3 million.

Following this, MRC Business recounted that Cook made a big, news-capturing stink to employees following the Charlottesville "Fine People Hoax" affair in 2017 that Apple was retaliating by donating $1 million into SPLC’s coffers. How does that look now? If our math is correct, that amounts to one-third of the funds SPLC is accused of having doled out on fraudulent grounds to extremist groups.

The announcement that Cook was retiring from the CEO position literally came just the day prior to the news that SPLC had been indicted. Coincidence?




 
Be careful, Be ready, Be prepared.
Buy ammo

[Bigun]

 

[mystery-ak]

SPLC saw revenue surge after Charlottesville rally as DOJ alleges informant ties
The SPLC's revenue reportedly surged from $51M to $133M in the year following the 2017 Charlottesville rally
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published April 23, 2026 6:00am EDT | Updated April 23, 2026 8:33am EDT

The Southern Poverty Law Center more than doubled its revenue in the months following the deadly 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally — a surge now drawing renewed scrutiny after a Department of Justice indictment alleged the group paid an informant tied to the event’s organizers.

The 2017 rally, which left one woman dead, became a cultural flashpoint over White nationalism and political violence, driving widespread condemnation and a surge in donations to civil rights groups, including the SPLC. The fallout also shaped the 2020 presidential election, as President Donald Trump’s response — including his remarks about "very fine people" on both sides — was hammered by the left, with former President Joe Biden later citing Charlottesville as a reason he entered the race.

"For years, the Left used the 'Jews will not replace us' 2017 Unite the Right rally as proof of rampant antisemitism on the Right. Turns out, it was underwritten by the Leftist SPLC, which allegedly funded organizers, supervised racist posts, and coordinated transportation. Wild," journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote on X, one of many conservatives who argue the allegations raise questions about whether the SPLC’s use of paid informants may have played a role in amplifying or facilitating extremist activity.

According to the indictment from the Department of Justice, the SPLC paid an informant network dating back to the 1980s, including a "covert network" that was associated with or infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other groups at the organization’s direction.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/splc-saw-revenue-surge-after-charlottesville-rally-doj-alleges-informant-ties

[MeganC]

SPLC saw revenue surge after Charlottesville rally as DOJ alleges informant ties
The SPLC's revenue reportedly surged from $51M to $133M in the year following the 2017 Charlottesville rally
By Charles Creitz Fox News
Published April 23, 2026 6:00am EDT | Updated April 23, 2026 8:33am EDT

The Southern Poverty Law Center more than doubled its revenue in the months following the deadly 2017 Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally — a surge now drawing renewed scrutiny after a Department of Justice indictment alleged the group paid an informant tied to the event’s organizers.

The 2017 rally, which left one woman dead, became a cultural flashpoint over White nationalism and political violence, driving widespread condemnation and a surge in donations to civil rights groups, including the SPLC. The fallout also shaped the 2020 presidential election, as President Donald Trump’s response — including his remarks about "very fine people" on both sides — was hammered by the left, with former President Joe Biden later citing Charlottesville as a reason he entered the race.

"For years, the Left used the 'Jews will not replace us' 2017 Unite the Right rally as proof of rampant antisemitism on the Right. Turns out, it was underwritten by the Leftist SPLC, which allegedly funded organizers, supervised racist posts, and coordinated transportation. Wild," journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon wrote on X, one of many conservatives who argue the allegations raise questions about whether the SPLC’s use of paid informants may have played a role in amplifying or facilitating extremist activity.

According to the indictment from the Department of Justice, the SPLC paid an informant network dating back to the 1980s, including a "covert network" that was associated with or infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other groups at the organization’s direction.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/splc-saw-revenue-surge-after-charlottesville-rally-doj-alleges-informant-ties

I also saw that the SPLC agitators were talking about orchestrating having someone run over during the protests. Sounds like a conspiracy to commit murder to me.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2047313820603867564

[mystery-ak]

Far-Left SPLC’s Donors Include George Clooney, Tim Cook, George Soros, and Chick-Fil-A

Amy Furr 23 Apr 2026

The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has received funding from individuals including George Clooney and George Soros and businesses such as Chick-Fil-A, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

The news comes after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday said it charged the SPLC with fraud and money laundering linked to “violent extremist groups,” according to Breitbart News.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2046704517119377577

The SPLC is accused of funneling money to hate groups it claimed to fight against, receiving donations for years from big name donors, “many of whom pledged to the organization after clashes at a 2017 by ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist rally in Virginia, which resulted in the death of one protester,” the Post article read. The outlet said some of the donors reportedly did not know the group was shifting money to one of the individuals involved in organizing that rally.

According to the Post, the group’s donors include George Clooney, JPMorgan, and former Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with leftwing billionaire George Soros. The outlet said Chick-fil-A also made small-scale donations to the group.

Indeed, Fox Business reported in 2019 that Chick-fil-A had distanced itself from its donation to the far-left group after receiving criticism.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel on Tuesday announced the 11 count indictment against the SPLC, noting charges included wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering:

“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public. 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,” he wrote:

https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2046710156096864368

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/23/far-left-splcs-donors-include-george-clooney-tim-cook-george-soros-and-chick-fil-a/

[mountaineer]

Matt Walsh predicts top conservatives will be exposed for being paid by left-wing activist groups after it was revealed that the SPLC was secretly funding extremist groups like the KKK that they claimed to be battling.

"The SPLC was not offering money to genuine conservatives who were effective at advancing conservatism." ...

"And I suspect that soon... we're gonna find out that there are a fair number of alleged conservative figures, the most embarrassing and ridiculous ones, who've been getting paid by the forces they pretend to oppose." ... 

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2047057064443392074

[Timber Rattler]

This kinda reminds me of "The Phantom Menace" in Star Wars, in which Palpatine secretly funds and organizes both a Droid and Clone Army, and starts a war between the Trade Federation and Old Republic, so that he can usurp power as Galactic Emperor...

[GrouchoTex]

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. 

The created a need (nobody wanted) then filled it.

[Free Vulcan]

Matt Walsh predicts top conservatives will be exposed for being paid by left-wing activist groups after it was revealed that the SPLC was secretly funding extremist groups like the KKK that they claimed to be battling.

"The SPLC was not offering money to genuine conservatives who were effective at advancing conservatism." ...

The SPLC was a funding nexus for a whole lot of things, groups, and people. It could be as ActBlue, or for that matter intimately tied to them too.