SPLC indicted on federal fraud charges

A federal grand jury in Alabama returned a sweeping indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing it of a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud.

Prosecutors allege the group used shell accounts and prepaid cards to pay informants within the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations without disclosing these activities to donors.

The SPLC has denied the charges, characterizing the investigation as a politically motivated attack by the Trump administration.

If convicted, the organization faces the potential forfeiture of millions in assets linked to the alleged scheme.