NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice last month announced an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alleging that the civil rights nonprofit defrauded donors by secretly paying informants associated with extremist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Black Republican congressman excoriated Democrats and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for allegedly perpetuating racist tropes he said had long faded while recounting how his father endured true bigotry in ways far worse than what Americans experience today. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, joined a House … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal prosecutors’ stunning indictment of a left-wing activist group for alleged financial crimes is reverberating in Georgia’s 2026 Senate race, with Republicans targeting Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., for his past ties to the organization. The Department of Justice brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center … Read more
News outlets treat it as an authority when it is actually a competitor, and a disreputable one. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The leader of a parental rights group that the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled an “extremist” organization is calling for the group to be “shut down” as it faces federal charges. The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy … Read more
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s campaign hit back at Republican attacks Friday after the state GOP demanded answers from the Democratic gubernatorial front-runner on her past work with the federally-indicted Southern Poverty Law Center. Benson is a former volunteer and later board member of the SPLC, … Read more
The ‘antiracist’ outfit’s use of ‘informants’ is reminiscent of the bureau’s Cointelpro fiasco. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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 … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Treasury Department is tightening Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax-exempt reporting requirements in an effort to uncover nonprofit funding being used for “extremist activity” and “hiding fraud.” The move comes days after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit known for civil rights litigation and racial … Read more