U.S. Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on Federal Fraud Charges, Accused of Illegally Paying Informants in White Supremacist and Other Extremist Groups
April 22nd, 2026Via: Las Vegas Sun:
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday was indicted by the Justice Department alleging its past use of paid confidential informants to infiltrate extremist groups amounted to defrauding donors. The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama.
The organization was charged for allegedly making payments totaling at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people associated with extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America and the National Socialist Party of America, among others.
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