The Southern Poverty Law Center used donor money to secretly fund groups it claimed to combat.
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The Department of Justice of the administration of President Donald Trump announced this Wednesday that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left organization known for its legal work, was charged with fraud and money laundering in connection with “violent extremist groups.”
The prosecution maintains that, starting in the 80s, "the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were associated with extremist and violent groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups under the direction of the SPLC.”
Specifically, according to the press release provided by the Justice portfolio, the SPLC “diverted more than 3 million dollars of funds donated to associated individuals” to white supremacist groups such as the National Socialist Movement, the United Klans of America and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club (a group affiliated with Aryan Nations), between 2014 and 2023.
The headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center is located in the state of Alabama.
Accused of profiting from extremism to justify their existence
Thus, part of the money donated to the SPLC was used to finance the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that this extreme left NGO claimed to combat and denounce those same groups in its daily work, all without the knowledge of its
own donors.
According to the acting attorney general of the United States, Todd Blanche, the extreme left group “was manufacturing racism to justify its existence”. The official added that “using donor money to allegedly profit from Klan members cannot go unpunished.”
A total of 11 charges - ranging from electronic fraud to false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit money laundering in concealment - were brought against this NGO by a grand jury located in Alabama.
