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A federal grand jury has returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, with the Department of Justice alleging the nonprofit secretly directed millions in charitable donations toward some of the most notorious extremist organizations operating on American soil.
The groups named as recipients of those alleged payments include the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation.
The SPLC has spent decades marketing itself to the public and to donors as the country’s most vigilant watchdog against organized hatred — making the charges filed against it among the most jarring reversals of institutional credibility in recent memory.
FBI Director Kash Patel laid out the government’s position in blunt terms, saying those charged “lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups.”
Patel went further, stating the funds were allegedly deployed “to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes.”
The FBI director confirmed that prosecutors are not finished. The investigation remains open and is actively targeting every individual alleged to have participated in the scheme.
The indictment carries a thread that pulls directly into one of the most consequential political narratives of the past decade. A federal informant told government investigators that SPLC money flowed into the planning of the 2017 Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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