DOJ Expands 11-Count SPLC Indictment, Alleging $4 Million Funneled to KKK-Linked Groups
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 3
DOJ Expands 11-Count SPLC Indictment, Alleging $4 Million Funneled to KKK-Linked Groups
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 3
$4 million in alleged donor-funded payments to KKK and other extremist-linked informants is at the center of a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps the original 11 fraud and money-laundering-related counts.
Prosecutors say SPLC secretly routed the money from 2014 to 2023 through fictitious entities and concealed bank accounts while publicly denouncing some of the same groups its paid sources were helping sustain.
The filing details reimbursements for KKK activities including cross burnings, wood, fuel and garment materials, and says one source was paid while recruiting new members after being offered a $1,200 monthly salary.
Abbe Lowell, representing SPLC, denied the allegations, saying the informant program prevented violence, the group did not mislead donors or banks, and the Justice Department mishandled the case before trial.
The expanded case lands against a backdrop of rapid SPLC growth: the indictment says revenue rose to more than $129 million in 2023 from about $38.7 million in 2010, while net assets climbed to nearly $787 million.