WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.
SPLC claims they were just getting information. Racism is so rare compared to my youth that this looks like funding groups that might otherwise wither on the vine. Remember the racist rally in Charlottesville in 2017? Guess who helped fund it,
Without their money to support racist organizations, all the people at the Southern Poverty Law Center would have to get honest jobs, with employers who, as Dr, Raymond Stantz said in "Ghostbusters", "They demand results."
ReplyDeleteNot telling donors where their money went might be a long way from the legal definition of fraud. We'll see. But the SPLC is still a corrupt hate group.
ReplyDelete"We are going to use your contributions to fight racist groups" but use it to fund racist groups seems like fraud to me. "We are going to give you a new car," then buying a new car for yourself.
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