SPLC tried to cut off money to David Horowitz Freedom Center while paying Neo-Nazis.
For generations, millions of Southern Poverty Law Center fundraising letters circulated around the country with pictures of Klansmen burning crosses on the envelope and begged donors for help in fighting the Klan. As it turns out those donors who contributed to the SPLC were paying for the crosses and the hoods as the Justice Department indictment of the organization reveals.
When the Justice Department first secured its case against the leftist organization, the SPLC contended that it had only been paying off informants as part of its effort to monitor hate groups, but the new superseding indictment now reveals that the money paid out had been used to fund rallies, open new chapters, create racist materials and even “purchase materials for cross burnings” and “purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”.
Incredibly, the SPLC reimbursed KKK members for “all expenses they incurred for cross-burning events to include the wood and fuel used.”
Rather than fighting the KKK, donor money had been used to commit hate crimes.
According to the indictment, those on the SPLC’s payroll included the head of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of America who headed an Aryan Nations group with chapters in 17 states while getting a $2,500 monthly salary through a secret SPLC account. While the SPLC aggressively pursued patriotic organizations like the David Horowitz Freedom Center, it collaborated with the Nazi leader, and in an incredible moment, the Nazi leader “asked an SPLC employee to soften the language about him… so that it would scare off new members from joining his extremist organization. The SPLC employee agreed and changed the language.”
Even while fundraising off fighting Nazis, the SPLC provided the Nazi leader with $70,000.
That’s the same organization which had listed my blog along with a bar sign as hate groups.
Contrary to its claims of fighting hate, the Southern Poverty Law Center wasn’t trying to shut down hate groups, it was paying money to keep them going, funding their recruitment and even watering down descriptions of them to encourage new members to join theihate groups.
The SPLC fundraised off fighting another Neo-Nazi leader, the former chairman of the National Alliance, even while paying him $155,000. Other hate group leaders on the SPLC payroll included the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, the National President of the American Front, and an officer of the National Socialist Movement.
Even as the SPLC was working to cut off funding to the David Horowitz Freedom Center by putting us on its list of hate groups, a list that was funneled through the ‘Bloodmoney’ campaign to cut off credit card and online donations to us and urging financial institutions to ‘debank’ us, it was laundering money to Neo-Nazi leaders through fake organizations. That illegal practice led to the SPLC being indicted on money laundering charges for running these fake groups.
While the SPLC claimed to be doing all this to fight hate groups, the indictment documents repeated instances when Nazi and Klan members came to the SPLC trying to leave and were instead encouraged and even paid to stay and continue growing their organizations. --->READ MORE HERE
The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
The feds initially charged the once-venerable civil rights organization in April with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and money laundering conspiracy. Tuesday’s superseding indictment, filed in Montgomery, Ala., federal court, lays out some of the stories of informants who were paid in money the SPLC raised from donors on the pretext of “exposing hate and injustice” and “fighting discrimination.”
Two Klan members, identified only as F-31 and F-32, came to the SPLC in 2010 in fear for their safety and wanting to leave the hate group, the indictment alleges.
Instead of helping them find a way out, prosecutors say, the pair were paid $1,200 per month, plus expenses, via a shell corporation called Rare Books Warehouse to remain in the Klan.
Some of that money, according to the indictment, was used to recruit new members and make the Klan’s notorious white robes.
Among the expenses the two were reimbursed for, per the court documents, were all the costs “incurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.”
Expenses for “extremist group rallies,” establishing new chapters of the groups, publishing “racist paraphernalia” and other “extremist literature” were also covered.
SPLC’s efforts to infiltrate the hate groups stretch back to the 1980s, but the feds say the nonprofit used fictitious companies to conceal from its donors that a total of $4.1 million in payments were made to “field sources” between 2014 and 2023.
Those eight informants also included a Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and a leader of a chat group that organized the infamous 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., according to the indictment.
The initial filing noted that the Unite the Right field source took $270,000 from the SPLC from 2015 to 2023.
Another source — who allegedly was in a romantic relationship with a SPLC employee — received $1.2 million for activities that included stealing 25 boxes of documents from the neo-Nazi National Alliance, which their lover used as material for a story on the organizations “Hatewatch” website. --->READ MORE HERE
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