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SPLC indicted for fraud

SPLC indicted for fraud

In a stunning reversal of roles, the nation's most prominent civil rights watchdog is now the target of a federal criminal investigation.

The DOJ alleges that the SPLC paid a Klan informant more money in a single year than one of the top organizing groups for the Charlottesville rally brought in entirely.

Conservative critics have seized on the indictment, arguing that the SPLC has become a 'partisan smear machine' that manufactures threats to boost fundraising.

Former Senator Doug Jones has countered that the prosecution is 'pure political retribution' aimed at silencing civil rights advocacy during a volatile election cycle.

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Southern Poverty Law Center
American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation
Department of Justice of Hong Kong
Department of the Hong Kong Government
Unite the Right rally
2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville
Independent city in Virginia, United States
Ku Klux Klan
American white supremacist hate group