SPLC Indicted for Funding Hate Groups

0:00A federal grand jury in Montgomery just hit the Southern Poverty Law Center with an 11-count indictment, charging them with wire fraud, money, laundering conspiracy, and lying to banks. Investigators say between 2014 and 2023, the group used fake bank accounts to secretly send over $3 million, too. Leaders of hate groups they publicly fought, like the Ku Klux Klan, National Socialist Movement, and American Nazi Party. Officials are calling it out hard. Finding Attorney General Todd Blanche says the SPLC manufactured racism to stay relevant and trick donors, while FBI. Director Cash Patel accuses them of paying extremists to stir up crimes. Now, the U.S. Attorney's Office has launched two forfeiture actions to claw back the cash if they're convicted, and the probe keeps rolling with more. Folks potentially in the crosshairs. This saga dates back to networks from the 1980s, but key details like who Greenlit those phony accounts remain under wraps as the case.

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