The Southern Poverty Law Center's former chief financial officer has been arrested and charged with fraud related to payments made to informants inside hate groups.
AI:The Department of Justice has arrested the former Chief Financial Officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal fraud charges involving illicit payments made to informants embedded within various hate groups. This legal action follows a pattern of accountability for radical organizations, including recent indictments against disgraced media figures like Don Lemon for civil rights violations during religious disruptions and ongoing investigations into fraudulent schemes linked to extremist-aligned entities. The crackdown on financial misconduct at the SPLC marks a significant development in the federal government's efforts to target the misuse of funds within high-profile activist groups.Open
The Southern Poverty Law Center is under fire on Capitol Hill after its interim CEO, Bryan Fair, refused to back down from the group’s decision to label Turning Point USA a hate group. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa pressed Fair directly, asking whether the SPLC would recant its attacks on […] The post Southern Poverty Law Center CEO is Grilled in Congress appeared first on StoneZone .
The Southern Poverty Law Center is under fire on Capitol Hill after its interim CEO, Bryan Fair, refused to back down from the group’s decision to label Turning Point USA a hate group. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa pressed Fair directly, asking whether the SPLC would recant its attacks on figures like Dr. Alveda King and the late Charlie Kirk. Fair would not give a yes. Instead, he said the SPLC would “continue to expose hate and extremism,” effectively doubling down on the organization’s M.O. of stigmatizing regular conservatives as threats. Turning Point USA was added to the SPLC’s hate map in 2025, with the organization accusing TPUSA of promoting fear and defending what it…Open
The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning on the Southern Poverty Law Center, months after the Trump administration accused the civil rights group of funneling money to extremist groups. The SPLC announced in April that it was under investigation by the Justice Department and in May pleaded not guilty to using a now-defunct informant program to pay hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The center at the time called the indictment the “latest manifestation of a top-down, retributive campaign” and asked a judge to toss the case. The hearing, according to the advisory, will look into whether the nonprofit “artificially elevated the domestic extremist threat and misleading its donors.” #housejudiciary…
In medieval Europe wealthy monarchs sometimes paid pirates to attack rival kingdoms while publicly condemning piracy. The arrangement allowed rulers to profit from the chaos while maintaining the appearance of moral authority. History is filled with examples of powerful institutions secretly nurturing the very threats they publicly claimed to oppose. According to a newly filed […] The post THE POVERTY OF THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER appeared first on StoneZone .
In medieval Europe wealthy monarchs sometimes paid pirates to attack rival kingdoms while publicly condemning piracy. The arrangement allowed rulers to profit from the chaos while maintaining the appearance of moral authority. History is filled with examples of powerful institutions secretly nurturing the very threats they publicly claimed to oppose. According to a newly filed superseding indictment by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), federal prosecutors now allege that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) may have been operating under a similarly astonishing contradiction. For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center portrayed itself as the nation’s foremost opponent of racism, white supremacy, and political extremism.…Open
"Photo Credit: Southern Poverty Law Center via YouTube" OPINION: The DOJ released a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center alleging that the SPLC gave reimbursments to the KKK for cross burnings, robes and hoods. #DOJ #SPLC #KKK About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important…
For years the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) worked to encourage corporations and big tech to blacklist and isolate conservatives by falsely accusing them of hate or racism. Yet all the while the SPLC was allegedly paying a source to make racist online posts under its direction, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. The […]
“The very org who claimed to be ‘fighting hate’ was the one perpetuating it?” U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., wrote on social media Wednesday. ACLU slammed the indictment and warned against taking its claims “at face value.”
Per the DOJ, an SPLC employee 'encouraged F-31 and F-32 to stay in the movement and offered to pay them a $1,200.00 monthly salary as well as to pay for expenses as incurred.'
