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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We now have a Trump Injustice Department
The Justice Department has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, alleging that the organization paid informants to infiltrate hate groups without disclosing the payments to donors, while the SPLC claims that it was gathering intelligence to prevent violence.
SPLC Indictment Bolsters The Need To Pass The Save America Act Now
It was announced over the last week that the DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left extremist group that has only gotten more radical over the years but still masquerades as a non-governmental “civil rights” organization whose business model is based strictly on bilking the American taxpayer. The crux of the indictment centered on the SPLC committing fraud by pro-actively financing “far-right” extremist groups it officially dee…
Federal Indictment Alleges SPLC Paid Extremist-Linked Individuals While Spending Millions to Influence Southern Elections
Reports and court filings outline claims of funding tied to extremist figures alongside major voter mobilization efforts across Southern states. The post Federal Indictment Alleges SPLC Paid Extremist-Linked Individuals While Spending Millions to Influence Southern Elections first appeared on [your]NEWS.
Maya Wiley: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Is Part of Trump’s Broader Attack on Civil Rights
Attorney and civil rights activist Maya Wiley responds to the Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which centers on the group’s history of paying individuals to infiltrate white supremacist groups in order to monitor their activities. The SPLC has rejected the charges as politically motivated, saying its informant program was used to monitor threats of violence and that the information gathered was routinely sh
‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt To Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members
By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal | April 28, 2026 Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for sending money to members of the…
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