The infamously leftist Southern Poverty Law Center already is under indictment for schemes that allegedly used donor money to fund the very offenses it claimed to fight, racism and violence and such.
Now an Alabama grand jury has released a superseding indictment confirming details, such as that the organization paid money to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods, cross burnings and recruitment schemes.
SPLC Paid KKK Members Who ‘Wanted Out’ To Stay With Racist Group, DOJ Sayshttps://t.co/4Lo3M3Xf48
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) June 3, 2026
Couldn’t happen to a nicer front group. https://t.co/x1yUFQVpzb
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) June 3, 2026
SPLC Donor Money Paid For Klan Hoods And ‘Cross-Burning’ Supplies, DOJ Says: ‘Manufacturing racism’ https://t.co/FR0hJgsSUN
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 3, 2026
The Post Millennial said the accusations now include the SPLC “secretly funneling millions in donations to informants associated with extremist groups such as the KKK.”
The report cited the indictment’s allegations that the SPLC was “funnelling” some “$4.1 million in donations” “to a series of fictitious accounts” to pay “field sources” affiliated with extremist groups between 2014 and 2023.
The original indictment cited mishandling of about $3 million.
The newest documentation keeps the original counts, 11, including six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy.
The newest federal accusations allege “donor funds paid to field sources were used to purchase materials for cross burnings and making Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods, attending and hosting extremist group rallies nationwide, creating and growing chapters of extremist groups as well as recruiting new members, making ‘racist paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies,’ and paying the living expenses of field sources to allow them to ‘focus on their extremist groups rather than seeking other employment,'”: the report said.
Explains the indictment, “The SPLC actively led donors to believe that their donations would be used to ‘dismantle’ violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC hid from donors the fact that a portion of their donated funds was being secretly used to support extremist groups and to fund their violent, racist, and extremist activities.
“These activities were of the same nature as the activities about which the SPLC published articles on its website and other forums in an effort to obtain donations.”
The claims include:
Prosecutors expanded upon the actions of field sources cited in the original indictment. One of the sources, dubbed “F-9” in the indictment, was allegedly paid over $1.2 million in donor money. The source allegedly infiltrated the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization, “at the direction of the SPLC,” and helped raise money for the group. He allegedly received funds from the SPLC through a bank account for the fake entity Tech Writers Group. “The SPLC paid F-9 for over 20 years,” the superseding indictment noted, also adding that an employee at the SPLC was in a romantic relationship with the field source. Around $140,000 in donors’ money was allegedly deposited into a joint bank account owned by the field source and the employee, who owned a house together, and the employee “then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.” The SPLC is also accused of funneling money to F-30, who led the National Socialist Party of America, through the fake entity Rare Books using donors’ money, with similar instances taking place with other “field sources” associated with the KKK and other organizations.
The SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” the federal government has explained, but Acting AG Todd Blanche said “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
Two additional “field sources” were members of a KKK group who “feared for their safety from other Klan members and wanted out,” but were encouraged by the SPLC to remain, for a $1,200 monthly salary and expenses.
