Neo-Nazi, Klan 'Cyclops' and ‘Sadistic’ biker: Here's who SPLC paid in its informant network
The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted this week on federal fraud charges stemming from a years-long covert paid informant program, which Justice Department officials said allocated millions of...
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The Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted this week on federal fraud charges stemming from a years-long covert paid informant program, which Justice Department officials said allocated millions of dollars in donations to a network of informants affiliated with or closely tied to White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. The 11-count indictment accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the Justice Department, the SPLC sent some $3 million to its paid informants between 2014 and 2023 — including persons affiliated with the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America, and the Aryan Nations-linked "Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club," among others. Senior Trump administration officials took aim at the covert paid informant program, which funneled outside donations, at least in part, to informants affiliated with the same extremist groups the SPLC was founded decades earlier to oppose. SPLC FACES BLOWBACK FROM ‘HATE MAP’ TARGETS AFTER DOJ FRAUD INDICTMENT "As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters Tuesday at a press conference. "It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred." The SPLC's paid informant program funded individuals with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, the National Socialist Party of America, and others — including a member of an online "leadership chat group" that helped plan the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, officials said. Here are the top five most eye-popping paid informants revealed in this week's indictment. Among the paid informants identified in the indictment is a member of an online "leadership chat group" that Blanche said helped plan the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" event in Charlottesville, Virginia. The individual, refer…