Federal Grand Jury Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts for Alleged Fraud Scheme Paying Extremist Groups
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals associated with violent extremist groups while publicly denouncing those same groups and soliciting donations to fight them.
Tommy Flynn
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal grand jury in Montgomery indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts Tuesday, charging the nonprofit with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals associated with violent extremist groups while publicly denouncing those same groups and soliciting donations to fight them, according to the Department of Justice.
The SPLC used fictitious entities and hidden bank accounts to disguise the payments.
Organizations paid include:
- Ku Klux Klan
- United Klans of America
- Unite the Right
- National Alliance (one affiliate received over $1 million)
- National Socialist Movement
- Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club
- National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party)
- American Front
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence. Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked.”
FBI Director Kash Patel added: “They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups.”
The investigation by the FBI and IRS-CI is ongoing. The SPLC has not commented publicly on the charges.
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