Last week, thanks to the leadership of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, a grand jury issued a superseding indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged fraud against its donors. Based on the shocking allegations in the indictment, the Treasury Department and the IRS are well-positioned to strip the SPLC of its legal status as a nonprofit organization.The SPLC markets itself to liberal elites as an activist group fighting “hate” and “racism.” But it turns out that, according to the indictment, the SPLC was using its liberal donor money to fund hateful extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Movement.It appears as though the SPLC was using donor money to fabricate new examples of hate with which to frighten donors into giving it more money. DOJ investigators and attorneys have uncovered previously secret bank accounts opened in the name of fictitious entities that the SPLC used to funnel millions of donated dollars to “informants” in these hate groups. The superseding indictment claims that the funds were used for cross burnings and even Klan robes. Even the most radical liberal could not defend this alleged behavior.
MAGAZINE: FAKING HATE CRIMES? THE SPLC ALLEGEDLY DID ONE BETTER
