The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-profit, took millions in charitable contributions for extinguishing racism and used the money to fund neo-Nazi propaganda. These incendiary charges were entered by a federal grand jury and announced by acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday (April 21). The 11-count indictment, which includes bank and wire fraud charges and a money-laundering kicker, was lodged against the SPLC as an organization. Now widely viewed as a Democrat Party attack group, the firm once tallied major wins against some of the worst racist groups in the country. Its future is uncertain to say the least.
Blanche, who announced the charges with FBI Director Kash Patel, said about the grand jury findings:
"The SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred."
Neither Morris Dees, the group's controversial founder, nor anyone else has been charged. Federal criminal charges against a corporation (the SPLC is an Alabama-chartered corporation) can include only money damages as a result of a conviction, but cannot result in anybody being incarcerated. So, while the liberty of the leaders is not under direct threat, the charity's substantial endowment is.
SPLC an $800 Million Target
According to the most recent publicly available filings, the group sits on a veritable mountain of cash. After a strong legacy of destroying many racist groups through the creative use of the civil justice system, the group cashed in and crashed out in an orgy of anti-Republican hate. Their big cases stopped in the 1990s. The insufficient inventory of racists since then has been so spare as to create a sense of urgency on the home front – so they had to manufacture some!
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