SPLC Charged with Fraud for Infiltrating Hate Groups

0:00A federal grand jury in Alabama hit the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of fraud charges this week, including six for wire fraud, four for bank fraud, and one conspiracy to launder money. The Justice Department says the non-profit secretly paid members of hate groups like neo-nazis, Aryan nations, and Ku Klux Klan affiliates too. Infiltrate them without telling donors or banks. The alleged scheme ran from 2014 to 2023, funneling over $3 million to fake entities like Center, investigative agency and Fox Photography to hide the payments. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it manufacturing extremism instead of fighting it, pointing to cases like paying a leader from the two. 2017, United The Right Rally in Charlottesville. SPLC leaders have fired up denying everything and claiming the informative program saved lives by tackling dangerous hate groups. They've long tracked white supremacists and fed info to law enforcement, but Trump allies

1:01have slammed them as a smear machine targeting. Conservatives, the probes started years back, got paused under Biden and fired up again under Trump. FBI Director Cash Patel already cut all ties with SPLC, and Republicans have grilled them in hearings over labeling groups like Turning Point USA as, hate linked, this indictment ramps up the bad blood, with SPLC vowing to battle in court while pushing their mission harder against what they see as political attacks. From your city, powered by AI, this is California News Today.