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TigerGrowls

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BREAKING: DOJ charges the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The SPLC secretly funneled $3M+ in donor funds to violent racist extremist groups:

-Ku Klux Klan
-American Nazi Party
-Aryan Nation
-United Klans of America
-Unite the Right
-National Alliance
-National Socialist Movement
-Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club
-American Front

To hide the payments, SPLC allegedly opened bank accounts under fictitious entities to conceal the source and control of donor funds.

Per the indictment: an SPLC field source was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville — made racist postings under SPLC supervision and helped coordinate transportation to the event.

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."

Acting AG Todd Blanche: "The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence. Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked."

Scheme allegedly ran 2014–2023.

FBI calls it an ongoing investigation.

Insane!!!
 

fatpiggy

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Makes perfect sense that the people crying “White Suoremacy” also paid the White Supremacist $270k


And the Democrats fell for it hook, line, and Sinker.


 

fatpiggy

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Smarmy lib NBC reporter can’t handle the truth.

I expect the news to get more aggressive with their lies as the DOJ ramps up prosecution of the leftist scams. Splc, Russian collusion, election fraud fraud, it’s all about to come crumbling down and Kash is hovering over the target about to drop the bombs of reality on the left and they are squirming.


 

fatpiggy

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What will be the excuse when it gets thrown out, or the DoJ doesn't get the convictions that MAGA twitter is frothing over?
Probably the same ones when the Trump stuff got thrown out.

It's the same circus. Yall wanted Trump to take it lying down. Looks like a pretty big miscalculation.
 

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Probably the same ones when the Trump stuff got thrown out.

It's the same circus. Yall wanted Trump to take it lying down. Looks like a pretty big miscalculation.
Wanted Trump to take it lying down? I don't think anyone didn't anticipate Trump going after people when he was elected back to office. I'm just saying, this DOJ is a clown show so I wouldn't really expect good news, even if SPLC is guilty.
 
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fatpiggy

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Wanted Trump to take it lying down? I don't think anyone didn't anticipate Trump going after people when he was elected back to office. I'm just saying, this DOJ is a clown show so I wouldn't really expect good news, even if SPLC is guilty.
I don’t expect good news, and to be honest I don’t particularly care.

What I care about is that the public knows. Let there be a trial so the public can see.

Same with the RICO stuff coming. Probably won’t get a lot of convictions for political reasons, but let’s get it on the record as to what really happened. Let the world see the dirty games they were playing.
 
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dpic73

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Probably the same ones when the Trump stuff got thrown out.

It's the same circus. Yall wanted Trump to take it lying down. Looks like a pretty big miscalculation.
He should have taken it lying down, in fact, he should have slinked off to retirement in embarrassment and shame after January 6th. He deserved what he got and he would have been convicted if the amoral maga crowd didn't give him a get out of jail free card. Insane that your side wants retribution for trying to hold him accountable for the worst crimes a president has ever committed against our own country. The fact that you want the good guys in this equation jailed is sickening and will just lead to another cycle of retribution that you will deserve when the tables flip. A pretty big miscalculation indeed...on your part.
 
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dpic73

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I don’t expect good news, and to be honest I don’t particularly care.

What I care about is that the public knows. Let there be a trial so the public can see.

Same with the RICO stuff coming. Probably won’t get a lot of convictions for political reasons, but let’s get it on the record as to what really happened. Let the world see the dirty games they were playing.
I don't think you really do want a public trial for the RICO stuff because you will be exposed. No one really believes there was a grand conspiracy to get Trump and that will only become clearer when the best defense lawyers rip that conspiracy to shreds.
 

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Joe said the biggest threat was White Supremacy.

Dude was just a total clown show and total embarrassment for democrats.
As Morgan Freeman said, you want to stop racism, stop talking about it. It's become a major business. No one spreads more false racism than White liberals. To the point, they argue about it with Blacks. You know, they're too stupid to obtain voter ID, and certainly cannot use the Internet. Supposedly, women cannot do it either even when they take on a new last name through marriage. Imagine actually trying to make the argument and wanting people to believe you. Lmao. They're all poor, poor victims.
 

Hotshoe

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Wanted Trump to take it lying down? I don't think anyone didn't anticipate Trump going after people when he was elected back to office. I'm just saying, this DOJ is a clown show so I wouldn't really expect good news, even if SPLC is guilty.
Clown show like Garland who lied constantly regarding his DOJ and investigations.

Jonathan Turley: AG Garland's testimony only begs more questions. Why is DOJ monitoring parents? | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/garland-testimony-doj-parents-jonathan-turley


Who is Lying? Merrick Garland or the Whistleblowers? – JONATHAN TURLEY https://share.google/rqYwlcgghiVBUgcp4
 

TigerRagRob

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As Morgan Freeman said, you want to stop racism, stop talking about it. It's become a major business. No one spreads more false racism than White liberals. To the point, they argue about it with Blacks. You know, they're too stupid to obtain voter ID, and certainly cannot use the Internet. Supposedly, women cannot do it either even when they take on a new last name through marriage. Imagine actually trying to make the argument and wanting people to believe you. Lmao. They're all poor, poor victims.
White leftist a bigger threat to the planet than climate change...
 

dpic73

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Remember Dpic and other leftist falling for this.... smh

Your dumb, simpleton *** believes the tweets of propaganda bots in the right-wing sewer, because you're a crazy person.

The Charlottesville connection specifically:
Prosecutors allege one informant was a member of the "online leadership chat group" that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally, attended the rally at the direction of the SPLC, and helped coordinate transportation for several attendees. That person was allegedly paid more than $270,000 over several years. NPR

The SPLC's defense:
The SPLC does not deny paying informants. Interim CEO Bryan Fair said the organization's confidential sources "risked their lives to infiltrate and inform on the activities of our nation's most radical and violent extremist groups," and that the information saved lives. NBC News The SPLC says it is being politically targeted and calls the allegations false.

What is genuinely disputed and context you need
The right-wing framing — that the SPLC funded or organized Charlottesville — goes well beyond what the indictment actually says. There are several important caveats:
  1. Informant ≠ organizer. The indictment says the SPLC paid someone who was in the planning group and helped with logistics. That is a classic law enforcement informant model — the same approach the FBI has used for decades inside organized crime, terrorist cells, and hate groups. The indictment does not allege the SPLC created or directed the rally.
  2. Critically, the indictment does not allege that the funds went directly to the hate groups themselves. CBS News
  3. The indictment offers little to back up Acting AG Blanche's claim that the payments were used to fund crimes by the violent extremist groups. CNN
  4. The fraud charge is about donor transparency, not incitement. Blanche framed the legal theory this way: as a 501(c)(3), the SPLC was required to be honest with donors about how their money was spent, and no fundraising material disclosed that money would go to hate group members. NewsNation That's a real legal question — but it's a disclosure/fraud issue, not a "they caused Charlottesville" issue.
  5. Political context matters. The indictment came at a time when Blanche is under pressure to deliver wins against entities disfavored by President Trump, who was upset that the former AG failed to secure convictions of his political foes. NBC News The SPLC has been a popular target of conservatives who accuse it of unfairly labeling right-wing groups, and the investigation adds to concerns that the DOJ is being used as a political weapon. PBS

Bottom line
The claim that the SPLC funded the Charlottesville rally is an overstatement of what is alleged. The more accurate version is: the SPLC allegedly paid an informant who was involved in planning it — which is a serious allegation, but one with a very different character. Whether that constitutes criminal fraud (or legitimate intelligence-gathering that was poorly disclosed to donors) is now a question for the courts. The SPLC's defense — that this was a standard confidential informant program that saved lives — is a recognized and legally plausible one, even if the concealment from donors and banks is the specific charge.
In short: there is a real story here that deserves scrutiny, but the partisan spin on both sides is getting ahead of the actual facts in the indictment.


The Facts
 
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tigres88

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I went back through this thread to figure out how in the world yall are getting to some of these outlandish claims (specifically about Charlottesville).

So let me get this straight, because the FBI has said, 'an SPLC field source was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville — made racist postings under SPLC supervision and helped coordinate transportation to the event' you think the splc was behind the event?

Yall understand how undercover agents/informants work right? And these were federally funded undercover agents/informants, just like we have undercover agents in hate groups ALL over the nation and world, and these were a part of the splc before Trump removed funding for them last year. They were doing their literal jobs, or as an informant, doing their job which is to spill to agents information for money. Have you literally ever seen any TV show or movie about how espionage works at all?

But yes, of course, that's why the democrats are behind Jan 6, Charlottesville, etc. Makes TOTAL sense.
 

dpic73

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I went back through this thread to figure out how in the world yall are getting to some of these outlandish claims (specifically about Charlottesville).

So let me get this straight, because the FBI has said, 'an SPLC field source was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville — made racist postings under SPLC supervision and helped coordinate transportation to the event' you think the splc was behind the event?

Yall understand how undercover agents/informants work right? And these were federally funded undercover agents/informants, just like we have undercover agents in hate groups ALL over the nation and world, and these were a part of the splc before Trump removed funding for them last year. They were doing their literal jobs, or as an informant, doing their job which is to spill to agents information for money. Have you literally ever seen any TV show or movie about how espionage works at all?

But yes, of course, that's why the democrats are behind Jan 6, Charlottesville, etc. Makes TOTAL sense.
They take an out of context grain of truth and their algorithms explode it into a grand conspiracy across all their feeds and they blindly believe it, even though they know the credibility of this DOJ is dogsh*t. And they conveniently ignore that the entire modus operandi of Trump's agenda is to prosecute any and everyone on the Left, not to protect the country. This is simply Blanche doing Trump's corrupt bidding, nothing more.