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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,497 posts) Wed Apr 22, 2026, 06:46 PM Wednesday

SPLC charged with defrauding donors over paid extremism informant program

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using funds to secretly pay leaders of violent extremist groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

The indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in Alabama, charged the civil rights group with nearly a dozen counts including bank fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The case was announced soon after SPLC interim President and CEO Bryan Fair revealed the organization was under investigation for its now defunct program that used paid confidential informants to penetrate White supremacist and other organizations to “infiltrate” their ranks, learn about their activities and report their insight to law enforcement.

Fair denied any wrongdoing on behalf of the SPLC and said that they will “vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/southern-poverty-law-center-says-140911104.html

Grand jury in Alabamy? That says a lot.

Are there really any donors who feel defrauded? I've given to SPLC before and may do so again.

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SPLC charged with defrauding donors over paid extremism informant program (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP

"Are there really any donors who feel defrauded" for paying "confidential informants to penetrate white supremacist sop Wednesday #1

I've been a regular donor to SPLC for decades. yardwork Wednesday #2

Cutting off Faux pas Wednesday #3

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1. "Are there really any donors who feel defrauded" for paying "confidential informants to penetrate white supremacist

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Wed Apr 22, 2026, 07:10 PM

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groups and other organizations to 'infiltrate' their ranks, learn about their activities and report their insight to law enforcement"? That's precisely why donors supported the SPLC. The SPLC site clearly states: "Our Intelligence Project is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups and other domestic extremists."

https://www.splcenter.org/about/

If it's a crime to use paid informants to infiltrate and provide incriminating information on violent clandestine groups, then the FBI, CIA and every other law enforcement and national security organization in the world is also guilty of the same crime. This is just one more bullshit DOJ prosecution to go after Trump's enemies, and protect his violent white supremacist supporters.