WATCH: Justice Department charges SPLC with fraud over paid informant program
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
- Trump administration indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for using informants to track extremist groups The Globe and Mail —
- Justice Department charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over extremism investigations CBS News —
- Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants AP News —
- Southern Poverty Law Center secretly funded KKK to ‘manufacture racism,’ DOJ claims al.com —
- DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud amid denials from civil rights group The Hill —