"The Department of Justice alleged that the law centre defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very ideology it claimed to be fighting. It pointed to payments of at least $3m 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 far-right groups."
"Blanche said the money was passed from the centre through two different bank accounts before being loaded onto prepaid cards to give to the members of the far-right groups, which also included the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club."
"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 Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly misusing millions of dollars raised from donors. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the SPLC of funding informants to infiltrate far-right groups like the Ku Klux Klan, rather than dismantling them. The Department of Justice claims the SPLC defrauded donors by using their contributions to support the very ideology it opposes. The SPLC plans to vigorously defend its actions amid these serious allegations, which include wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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