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SPLC indicted for defrauding donors, allegedly giving $3M to leaders of KKK, other extremist groups

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A grand jury has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly giving $3 million to individuals tied to extremist groups it claims to oppose, including the Ku Klux Klan, as the far-left nonprofit condemns the allegations as the product of a “weaponized” federal government.

In a statement Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted SPLC on 11 counts, including wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

SPLC, a prominent nonprofit, identifiesitself as “a beacon of hope, fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice to help create a multiracial democracy where we can all live and thrive.”

The indictment alleges that “unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance.”

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Absolutely wild, the left is responsible for the racism on both the left and apparently now the right. :D
The WHOLE left? Are you lumping everyone on the left with racism? No racism on the right?
 
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I don't approve of paying informants but the article in the OP is definitely skewed.


The indictment, however, offers little to support the notion that the group’s payments to informants was meant to aid the extremist groups they had infiltrated.....​
Bryan Fair, the group's interim chief executive, expressed outrage over what he called the “false allegations.” The indictment, he said, “will not shake our resolve to fight for justice and ensure the promise of the civil rights movement becomes a reality for all.”​
In a video statement issued before the charges were filed, Mr. Fair argued that the Southern Poverty Law Center was being targeted for political reasons, saying the Trump administration had “made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy.”......​
In his video statement, Mr. Fair said that the group no longer worked with paid informants but added that those informants had “risked their lives to infiltrate and inform on the activities of our nation’s most radical and violent extremist groups.” That work, he insisted, saved lives.​
The center had for many years provided information and tips to local law enforcement and the F.B.I.​
 
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