SPLC Spent $1.1M on Infiltrating Nearly Defunct Group

By 2009, the National Alliance had become “almost irrelevant,” in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Material released by the SPLC in subsequent years detailed further decline at the West Virginia-based white nationalist organization, fueled by infighting and financial woes. As of 2016, the National Alliance had just a few dozen members, down from its 2002 peak of 1,400, the SPLC reported. Despite publicly portraying the National Alliance as a barely functional, and therefore barely dangerous, organization, the SPLC paid more than $1.1 million to informants within it from 2014 onward, according to an indictment brought against it this week by the Justice Department. This was long after the SPLC had publicly stated that the neo-Nazi organization was in its death throes. ActBlue employees pleaded the Fifth 146 times in depositions. Here’s what they didn’t want to answer Red-state AI regulation push has links to the Left Minnesota fraud committee suspects Ilhan Omar of involvement in Feeding Our Future scheme Central to the DOJ’s case against the SPLC is the contention that the civil rights organization misled its donors as to how its contributions were being used. Enriching a handful of white nationalists to take down a group that was already more-or-less dead, for instance, may not have been what people had in mind when they cut checks to the SPLC to fight racism. Why Your Sciatic Nerve Won't Heal (What Most Doctors Miss) Keep a Bread Clip in Your Wallet When Traveling - It's Genius Mix Some Salt and Vaseline, Here's Why Sleep Apnea Pillow Goes Viral: 1000s Say They Finally Sleep Deeply Cardiologists: 2 Veggies Will Kill Your Belly Fat Like Crazy (Try It) Dementia and Memory Loss Have Been Linked to a Common Habit. Do You Do It? Shocking Photos Taken Seconds Before The Disaster Why This Pantry Item is Suddenly Going Viral for Weight Loss Surgeon Reveals: This Simple Trick Will End Joint Pain & Arthritis! (Try It)