SPLC indicted for fraud

In a move that has shocked the civil rights community, federal prosecutors allege that the SPLC funded informants who infiltrated extremist planning for the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally.

The indictment claims the organization bill itself as a watchdog while secretly enriching the very groups it claimed to monitor.

Civil rights leaders have condemned the prosecution as 'nakedly political retribution' from the Trump administration.

The SPLC has vowed to fight the charges, which could threaten its non-profit status and decades of legal work.