He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
The Southern Poverty Law Center might have some splainin' to do after the Justice Department accused the civil rights organization of paying off the leadership of the KKK, Nazi Party, and Aryan Nations while telling donors it was fighting hate.
A federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for 11 counts of conspiracy to commit concealment of money laundering, false statements to a federally insured bank, and wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Alabama (Middle District) on April 21.
The Southern Poverty Law Center bears a storied name due to its role in the civil rights movement. Formed in 1971, it bankrupted the Klan through lawsuits and won millions of dollars in more judgments against the Nazis. However, the organization has generated a great deal of controversy over the last decade. SPLC fired co-founder Morris Dees in 2019 for harassment and other charges. Millions of dollars were found to be stuffed in offshore accounts while employees are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries. SPLC drew much fire for adding groups with which it disagreed to its "Hatewatch" list. Some of these groups included Moms for Liberty, Catholic theologians, and victims of Muslim violence. Free Press article.
SPLC's website told potential donors "Your support powers our work to confront hate, stand up to injustice, and defend our civil and human rights. However, the indictment charges the defendant instead used donated money to actually fund the KKK, Aryan Nation, and National Alliance - all white supremacist organizations it claimed to fight. SPLC also used paid confidential informants to obtain information on white supremacist activities.
In 2016, the year before the Unite the Right rally, the SPLC’s total contributions and public support stood at about $50 million. By October 2017, after the rally, revenues soared to approximately $133 million. Article
Jackpot!
* Meet the million-dollar informant. The indictment's tale of informant F-9 shows the SPLC was not above putting Nazi leaders on the payroll. The indictment charges:
F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance and served as an F for the SPLC for more than 20 years. F-9's activities included fundraising for the National Alliance. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-9 more than $1,000,000.00. In 2014, F-9 entered the headquarters of a violent extremist group and stole 25 boxes of their documents. F-9 coordinated payment for the copying of the materials with a high-level SPLC employee who had knowledge the documents had been stolen. The original stolen materials were returned to the violent extremist group in a second illegal entry by F-9. Thereafter, the high-level SPLC employee utilized the documents, in part, as the basis for a story published on the SPLC's Hatewatch website and authored by the employee. Another F, F-39, was blamed for the theft and was paid approximately $6,000.00 by the SPLC to falsely take responsibility for the theft.
Thus in the guise of fighting hate, the Southern Poverty Law Center paid a leader of the Nazi Party $1 million to lead the organization. The question is did the SPLC direct his activities and if so, did it do so to assist its own fund-raising?
* Money for the Klan. F-Unkown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America while on the SPLC payroll. Good grub if you can get it, right?
* The SPCL kept paying Nazis. The "civil rights" organization paid F-27 $300,000 from 2014 to 2020. The informant was an officer in the Nazi Party and the Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club (Aryan Nations)
* Don't forget the National Alliance. F-42 received $140,000 from 2016 to 2023. The informant was the former Chairman of the National Alliance.
* Meet SPLC's franchise player, F-30. F-30 "led the National Socialist Party of America", once led a faction of the Aryan Nations, and was once in the KKK. SPCL paid the informant $30,000 from 2014 to 2016.
* Presidents were on the payroll as well. The SPLC paid $19,000 to F-43, the President of the American Front from 2016 to 2019.
* Pawns in the game. SPCL paid a whopping $3,500 to F-unknown, a member of the KKK married to an Excalted Cyclops.
* By any means necessary. SPLC directed more than $160,000 to a "fictitious entity" to F-11 who in turned funneled the money to extremist group leaders, including a former Grand Wizard.
How the Scheme Worked (Allegedly)
The SPLC opened accounts at banks in the name of "fictitious entities" such as the Center Investigative Agency (CIA), Fox Photography, North West Technologies, Tech Writers Group, and Rare Books Warehouse. The "entities" were never incorporated and had no actual employees.
The indictment provides more information on the alleged scheme:19. To carry out this scheme and artifice, the SPLC explicitly sought donations under the auspices that donor money would be used to help""dismantle"" violent extremist groups. In the SPLC's solicitations for donations as outlined herein, donors were not told that some of the donated funds were to be used by the SPLC to pay high-level leaders of violent extremist groups and others, nor were donors ever told that some of the donated funds were used for the benefit of the violent extremist groups or that some of the donated funds would be used in the commission of state and federal crimes.
The Justice Department cites several instances of alleged wire fraud:
* 4/24/2023: SPLC account wired $4,750 to F-9
* 4/25/2023: SPLC wired $1,000 from SPLC operating account to F-11 and another $1,000 to F-35
* 4/25/2023: SPLC wired $3,090 from operating account to F-37
* 4/25/2023: SPLC wired $2,865 from its operating account to F-40
* 4/25/2023: SPLC wired $1,000 from its operating account to F-42
Remember the dummy companies that set up bank accounts for the SPLC? SPLC admitted to the bank it created them:
Pursuant to the discussion we had earlier this week, please /er this correspondence serve as confirmation that the accounts listed below were opened for the benefit of Southern Poverty Law Center operations and operated under the Center's authority.
The SPLC listed the accounts in the correspondence.
The use of these "phony accounts" figure prominently in the Justice Department's case. The indictment accuses SPLC of using these accounts to mislead donors and hide the true nature of its fund-raising.
The Justice Department seeks the forfeiture of any assets used to perpetuate the alleged scheme.
The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Emily Parks and Magistrate Kelly Pate.
Kingfish note: The SPLC's defenders claim it was just paying informants. Uh-huh. The Southern Poverty Law Center is not a law enforcement or intelligence agency. Even if no fraud occurred, the question must be asked if the Southern Poverty Law Center was creating more hate activities among white supremacists so it could raise more money i.e. line its own pockets. Such tactics were very profitable in Charlottesville.
Despite the salacious details in the indictment, the Justice Department probably faces an uphill battle. Legal commentator Johnathon Turley opined:
Setting aside such civil litigation, this will still be a challenge for the Justice Department. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News that the investigation was begun under the Biden Administration but then suddenly terminated. The action is likely to draw serious constitutional challenges over free speech and associational rights. The Center can argue that it was clear that they were targeting racist groups by any means necessary. While they did not discuss such clandestine operations, they will argue that the operations were still used to attack these groups and share information with law enforcement. The Center is also likely to raise selective prosecution claims. The government has a tough case, with the alleged fraud used to produce evidence submitted to state and federal prosecutors. In addition, if this case extends into a new administration, a Democratic Justice Department could scuttle the case as did the Biden Administration. Rest of column.
National Review's Dan McLaughlin offered his own thoughts:
Assuming the facts alleged are true, there are two main and related hurdles for the prosecution. The first is materiality, a core element of fraud that I’ve written about in many contexts. Lies are only fraudulent if they are material, i.e., if they are significant enough — and unknown and unknowable enough to the target — that a reasonable person in the victim’s position would be expected to consider the misrepresented or concealed fact to be important to one’s decision. Here, the SPLC’s lawyers will doubtless note that even $2 million isn’t that big a portion of the group’s budget over a decade; that all nonprofits spend and even waste some money on things they don’t detail to their donors... The second defense would be that the SPLC, which allegedly has been making these kinds of payments since the 1980s, is doing what amounts to undercover journalism, and is getting more in information out of its sources than it is losing by getting in bed with them and paying them. The indictment itself notes that the SPLC was involved in stealing documentary records from the groups. Our donors would want us to do this, the SPLC will doubtless argue, and they would understand that the nature of these kinds of informant programs is that they need to remain clandestine. The problem for the SPLC’s defense is not just that it was financing high-ranking figures with leadership roles, but that it was allegedly so hypocritical that it even ran profiles on its website of some of the hate figures it was secretly paying. The political problem is that a trial will air a lot of very dirty laundry that could turn people off, especially business donors who do not want their donations funneled to skinheads. Rest of column.
The Southern Poverty Law Center may win the case but lose the war if it goes to trial. The organization might technically be innocent but it will suffer a bloody nose if more dirty laundry is aired in an Alabama courtroom.
45 comments:
Nice try, but this crow ain’t goin to fly !
A tax free terrorist organization funding other terrorists. This first came to light during the Biden Administration, which, predictably, swept it under the rug.
Scammers are going to scam. Anything to keep the suckers giving them money, so they can collect their high salaries. They really only care about themselves.
USAID funded means just another color revolution attempt by the CIA. Something really needs to be done about them.
Reminds of an old saying about dogs and fleas.
3:13 for the win.
The SPLC is now literally run by a woman named "Karen."
It's pretty standard procedure for infiltrating and destroying enemy organizations and the DOJ and FBI wrote the playbook. You can bet our state dept. CIA, FBI, DOJ, etc. are paying off operatives in Iran as we speak. That's how it works. They have always known SPLC was doing this, the current administration simply decided to use the info at a convenient time. If only the taxpayers knew how much of our money has gone to payoff terrorist and criminal types we would be sick.
I don't know how it may turn out in the courtroom, but I do know the SPLC's reputation will take a hit either way.
4:49, SPLC is supposed to be a legal advocate, not law enforcement.
Actually Sharpton and that Jackson fellow wrote the book on keeping racial unrest stoked and flaming, then passing the hat at every whistle-stop and crossroads.
4:49 SPLC never got the memo....until now.
I realize you KF are not a practicing lawyer and you’ve never taken a witness in court or ….done anything with the 3 years you spent in law school….but….this indictment is ignorant and will be null soon. Relish the stupidity now. Life after this insanity will be evolved.
Can an entity STAGE an entire organization? ...because that's what it looks like, to me. Far beyond "paying-off" the various hate groups to which SPLC was giving money, I would posit that SPLC revived, or created "out of whole cloth", those hate groups.
Or, alternately, SPLC merely participated in (or just financed or helped finance) the creation or revival of those groups.
Then again, maybe SPLC and other entities simply financed/created the ILLUSION of the existence of the various hate groups. Defining EXISTENCE, specific to hate groups, may be the key...
SPLC has been a grift for many years. Inciting hate, fanning flames and pocketing cash.
If SPLC finds out that an organization has even one member that has ever voted Republican, that’s enough for SPLC to brand them a “hate group”. They create hate to stay in business and keep the donations rolling in.
Began as a good cause. Completely lost their mission years ago. Hope it gets loses down for good.
Al Sharptongue and Jesse Jackpot are/were high level grifters.
Fake news alert
There is money to be made selling race flags. Right?
"I would posit that SPLC revived, or created "out of whole cloth", those hate groups."
Right, the Aryan/White Power organizations are pure make believe, just like the "mafia."
That's why the feds have been infiltrating and busting them for the last 60 years, often in high-profile prosecutions.
Just because the SPLC is wrong about some things, doesn't make you right about everything. And it doesn't justify GOP fantasies of discrimination and persecution, like at 10:18.
It’s important to the grifters to keep the racist narrative going. They have to constantly have us at each others throat or they would loose money.
Trump, Vance, the DOJ, etc are pissed that the SPLC, among many things, called out Turning Point as a hate organization. This is naked political retribution.
Notice Kingfish stays silent about Trump’s pursuant of prosecuting his enemies?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an anti-free speech grifter hate group, and should be should be designated accordingly.
White-Collar Thug Convict Richard “Dickie” Scruggs et all gave us a first-hand look into just how narcissistic and corrupt trial lawyers can be. MUST READS: Kings of Tort and The Fall of the House of Zeus.
Even the Fall of the House of Zeus spells out the beyond shocking examples of greed these white collar thug trial lawyers will go to; and it was allegedly written by a Democrat pal of Scruggs, that, like MS Today, stays tactically focused on past events that haven’t happened in many decades, while conveniently ignoring today’s injustices, even the deaths of innocent children killed every year…..in their Democrat Purposeful Crime Party cities like Jackson.
Like the Eagles Get Over it Lyrics, “The more I think about it old Billy was right”
The SPLC certainly doesn't run things on the cheap when 2 to 4 of their $1200/hr lawyers ride into town on their private jet from big city. State government leaders and lawyers are scared to death of the SPLC. SPLC says jump! The state ask when, where and how high.
White liberals aren't the worst thing to ever happen to black folks, but they're a close second.
As @4:59 stated, the first problem with your position is that the SPLC is not a sanctioned law enforcement agency, such as those you mentioned. So that argument is moot. However, another issue here is that they not only infiltrated but provided funds to these groups via mail and wire fraud, which are illegal, and that makes the SPLC complicit. Finally, "They have always known" needs some documentation or verification. That just sounds like tinfoil hat conjecture you're spouting off as a fact.
Schumer, is that you or is this Bennie? AOC? Pelosi?
Well, you puffed up pompous prick, why don't you read the entire post, especially my note. I said the case had problems and also included legal commentators who said it has problems. However, sometimes you can win by going to court even when you are losing. Will this embarrass SPLC? Absolutely. Will SPLC win in court? Probably.
@8:20 - Are white conservatives the worst in your mind?
6:33 AM is likely a troll since anyone truly believing Turning Point was/is a hate group…..is a mental r____d.
Buy hey, plenty of Democrat Purposeful Crime Party supporters fell for the r____d Defund and Abolish the Police BLM scam, so it is plausible that 6:33 AM could be serious.
Further proof that the extreme left, along with the extreme right, are all a bunch of frauds. If you really "stood on business", one would not give money to groups they despise, and one would never receive money from groups they despise. The takeaway is that everyone is for sale or can be bought for a price. And some people will stoop to low levels to get the dirt on someone else, even paying them when you despise them.
Not to be forgotten, as reported elsewhere, is the $300,000+ the SPLC gave Nancy Loome and the Parents Campaign.
It seems that the Biden administration made a tit-for-tat deal with the SPLC to stop their investigation of SPLC crimes. In return, the SPLC would label certain school board activist as hate groups. That Biden snake den while in the White House sure were a despicable rat nest.
6:27 PM sounds just like another narcissist trial lawyer selectively outraged over the Trump Admin going after the SPLC.
Bet 6:27’s never posted outrage over the Biden admin killing Bryan Keith Malinowski (the highest paid employee in the city of Little Rock with no criminal record) in a 100% totally unnecessary ATF raid; which most will agree that death is so much, much worse and much more permanent than a “federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
Too many woke judges for this to ever see a perp walk. Look harder into all these distractions . You're being played by both sides.
Careful, 10:18! Mentioning "the last 60 years" to Mississippians, refreshes memories from about when I was born. I grew up, hearing the stories. My elders were very aware, at the time, that outsiders were being bussed-in, and were going around, deliberately provoking locals to attack them. Already, in the 1960s, the creation of attacks against "sympathetic victims" was a goal of the northerners. Genuine "hate" was in short supply, and so northerners went down to Mississippi, to MANUFACTURE some.
So, thanks! You've reminded us to begin questioning whether both sides of the "battle" weren't being trained and subsidized by the same entities. Just as the "health crisis" of 2020 has caused us to begin questioning the history and honesty of the entire Medical Industry, maybe this news about the SPLC will cause more intense questioning of the history of the Grievance Industry.
10:29 a.m., Are you the same guy who said he never met a mean or violent klansman?
6:51 a.m., You do realize King of Torts was a novel by John Grisham, don't you? That means it was a work of fiction, not historical fact.
Chokwe and Rukia surrounded themselves with SPLC folks. I want to say his token counsel from Rankin County did something with SPLC at one time. It's all one big fraud and money grab. Seems like lots of people have been saying that since the woke revolution. Even the AA population for the most part was over it, just like a majority of the white population is over the Aryan, KKK, white supremist, etc. I've been saying for years that if it wasn't for the media and social media, most of us would get along and accept each other's differences, however that doesn't make money, divisiveness does.
12:02 PM, search Amazon for “Kings of Tort” by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson for the “remarkable true story” with parts “told by the New York Times, the LA Times, 60 Minutes, 20/20 and PBS Frontline” and “co-authors Alan Lange and Tom Dawson have meticulously documented the full story relying heavily on information from publicly available documents resulting from court actions, newspaper accounts and interviews with the principles involved in the scandal.”
Democrat Purposeful Crime Party supporter and author John Grisham did write the book “Kings of Torts,” but “Kings of Tort” by Alan Lange and Tom Dawson is based on greedy slime ball white collar criminal thug trial lawyers…..historical facts.
Read it. While incredibly sad and angering, the real life Kings of Tort book is so much better than any of John Grisham’s novels. Seriously, you probably will not be able to put the book down.
I agree. Imagine if we just had no mainstream media for a year. It would be so healing.
6:33, you are not a serious person.
2:29, I took a month off from news. I found a hope and inspiration again. It was crazy how much negativity I was allowing in my life. Now, I read local news but do not go main stream anymore. It has made a huge difference in my direction in life.
2:26, Thanks for the correction and the info.
2:29 here. I need to give that a try 4:09.
I really think we all need to. Glad to hear it helped!
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