US Top News and Analysis | DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over secret funding of extremist groups

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced a 11‑count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), accusing the civil‑rights nonprofit of secretly financing right‑wing extremist groups it purported to monitor. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama charged the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of money‑laundering, alleging the organization paid informants to provoke racial hatred rather than dismantle the groups. SPLC CEO Bryan Fair confirmed the group is under a criminal probe, noting the investigation appears focused on the SPLC’s past use of paid confidential informants to collect intelligence on violent extremist groups.

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