SPLC Faces Federal Indictment for Hate Group Payments

0:00The Southern Poverty Law Center just got hit with a federal indictment accusing them of secretly paying informants and hate groups like the Ku Klux. Klan, funneling cash that ended up supporting those outfits without donors knowing. This goes back to 1980 when the SPLC built a network of field sources inside extremist crews, including area nations and national. Socialist movement types, shelling out over $3 million between 2014 and 2023. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch called out the SPLC for cooking up racism to stay relevant and claim they never passed informant tips to. Cops, but the grew fired back hard in core filings this week. SPLC leaders say they've shared intel with the FBI for 40 years, stopping bombings and murders from the civil rights era days, insisting their work, dismantled the Klan, and saved countless lives. They're pushing for grand jury transcripts to prove false claims, got the indictment rolling and won a gag on more leaks as this plays out. With an un, a Raymond Setford May 7th

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