Ex-Official at Civil Rights Group Is Charged in Plot to Misuse Far-Right Informants
A former senior official at the Southern Poverty Law Center was charged on Wednesday with fraud and conspiracy as part of a revised indictment accusing the storied civil rights group of cheating its donors by using their money to pay informants inside right-wing extremist organizations. The former official, Heidi Beirich, once ran the center’s informant … Read more