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We Now Have a Trump Injustice Department

The Justice Department says the nonprofit secretly paid informants inside extremist groups and hid the money from donors for nearly a decade.

  • On Tuesday, April 21, the Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire fraud, alleging the organization secretly funneled over $3 million to informants inside extremist groups without disclosing this to donors.
  • Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed the SPLC was "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose," while SPLC Interim President and CEO Bryan Fair rejected the charges, saying the program gathered crucial intelligence on hate groups.
  • Prosecutors allege the SPLC used fictitious companies like "North West Technologies" and "Rare Books Warehouse" to obscure payments; an operative made racist postings "under the supervision of the SPLC" during planning for the 2017 Charlottesville event.
  • Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called comparing SPLC's informant use to Jewish groups "ludicrous," though the SPLC maintains the funds prevented violent attacks.
  • The organization launched "Klanwatch" in 1981 to prosecute civil rights cases, then rebranded as The Intelligence Project in 1998 to broaden its scope to immigrant protections and LGBTQ rights advocacy.
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friendlyatheist.com broke the news on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
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