The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has spent years being treated by mainstream media as the go-to expert on hate groups and extremism. Now it is facing an 11-count federal indictment for wire frau...
SPLC Indicted for Fraud, Money Laundering in Informant Payouts
The Southern Poverty Law Center faces 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy after allegedly paying informants within hate groups and deceiving donors.
This week’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal fraud charges for allegedly abusing donor dollars to foment “hate” on the Right has left observers wondering how the SPLC, once a l...
The Justice Department this week announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging that the longtime civil rights watchdog had defrauded its own donors by secretly paying la...
More than a dozen donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center feel that a recent Department of Justice indictment accusing the group of defrauding contributors by paying informants is farcical, the dono...
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on April 21, 2026, on federal fraud charges. The Justice Department alleges that the civil rights group known as the SPLC improperly raised millions of dol...
When facts are stranger than fiction, pundits will say, “You can’t make this stuff up.” But actually, you can make this stuff up — that turns out to be the Left’s modus operandi. The Southern Poverty...
Famed writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was infamously targeted with murderous threats from Islamic terrorists, welcomed the federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), arguing it val...
The Justice Department relied on a lesser-known bank deception statute to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center while omitting an element needed to prove the crime: intent to influence a financial in...
Conservative organizations that have faced years of vicious attacks from the Southern Poverty Law Center feel vindicated after a sweeping federal indictment accused the left-wing group of secretly fun...
A close look at the accusations against the Southern Poverty Law Center. TO MUCH FANFARE, the Department of Justice this week announced a new indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group kn...
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has had an outsized influence on American government and society, much of it malignant, but that may be coming to an end. Federal prosecutors have a...
The charges, announced by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, turn the SPLC’s use of informants inside violent far-right groups into a supposed fraud against donors, unde...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in its effort to attack members of the Right, has often labeled individuals that others would consider normal as hate-filled or “extremists.” On Tuesday, a Gra...
A federal grand jury has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire and bank fraud, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Tuesday evening. “In the Middle Distri...
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday was indicted by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering over the left-wing group...
