DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud amid denials from civil rights group
The Hill
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The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) including bank and wire fraud, charging the group in connection with a now-defunct program that used paid informants to monitor extremist groups.
The charges include six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy…
- 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 —
- WATCH: Justice Department charges SPLC with fraud over paid informant program PBS —
- 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 —