WATCH: Justice Department charges SPLC with fraud over paid informant program
Summary
The Justice Department has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with federal fraud for secretly using millions of dollars from donors to pay informants who infiltrated extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The government says SPLC hid these activities from donors and funded the very groups it claimed to fight.Key Facts
- The SPLC was indicted for fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to launder money.
- The group paid at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to informants linked to white supremacist and extremist groups.
- Informants included members of the Ku Klux Klan, National Socialist Party of America, National Alliance, and others.
- Payments were made secretly through bank accounts and prepaid cards without telling donors.
- The SPLC said the program was to monitor violent threats and protect informants’ safety.
- The investigation began after SPLC disclosed the DOJ probe into its informant program.
- SPLC CEO Bryan Fair said they will defend their work and staff vigorously.
- The case raises questions about possible political use of the Justice Department under President Trump’s administration.
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