Acting Attorney General Blanche and FBI Director Patel announced the indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
The Justice Department reported, “Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America.“
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”
“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups – even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes. That is illegal.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated this case with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Acting Attorney General Blanche as he oversees Justice Department actions and procedures.
- For Director Patel as he manages FBI investigations and facilitates cases.
- For federal judges and members of grand juries as they hear and determine legal outcomes.
Sources: Department of Justice
