Indictment: Leftist Mega-Nonprofit SPLC Paid For Wood And Gas For KKK To Burn Crosses
The government is alleging that the SPLC, which presents itself as America's foremost anti-hate organization, quite literally funded Klan robes.The government is alleging that the SPLC, which presents itself as America's foremost anti-hate organization, quite literally funded Klan robes.War against 'race-baiting' SPLC opens new front in Alabama
The Southern Poverty Law Center was federally indicted on April 21 for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to the very racist and extremist groups it claimed to be fighting, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, the American Front, United Klans of America, and the National Socialist Party of America.
The Alabama-headquartered smear- and fearmongering racket — charged with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering — pleaded not guilty on Thursday to all counts.
'We have always suspected that they were monetizing hate.'
"The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong," stated SPLC interim president and CEO Bryan Fair. "They are based on inaccurate facts and a misapplication of law. Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."
Now thanks to the state of Alabama, SPLC smear merchants will have to mount a defense on more than one front.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Monday that his office has launched a civil investigation into the SPLC, alleging deceptive fundraising practices under Alabama's consumer protection statutes.
The probe is looking specifically at whether the SPLC's alleged activities referenced in the federal indictment violated Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act or other state laws concerning charitable organizations.
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Marshall's office has subpoenaed SPLC documents disclosing to Alabama donors or prospective donors the organization's use of "informants"; identifying the annual donations received from donors in Alabama and beyond; showing annual disbursements of donated funds to "informants"; reflecting the percentage of the SPLC's annual budget blown on "informant"-related costs; and showing payments to groups or individuals appearing in the SPLC's extremist files or on its hate map.
The SPLC, which has been ordered to produce these documents by June 1, confirmed to WSFA-TV that the organization's leaders "have received notice of a subpoena and are currently reviewing."
"My office has been fighting the SPLC for years — whether fighting them to protect minors from transgender medical procedures, fighting them to keep bad guys behind bars, or fighting them to preserve Alabama’s Republican congressional districts," Marshall said in a statement.
"We have always suspected that they were monetizing hate and trading on race-baiting; it was just a matter of proving it," continued Marshall. "Thanks to the U.S. Justice Department’s action to deal with the SPLC, the state’s efforts have now received a shot in the arm. We look forward to learning more about the inner workings of an organization that we have long believed was rotten but, until recently, has been impervious."
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Video of man lurking in KKK garb unnerves Rhode Island residents — police say it is not what it seems
A video of a man walking around in a Ku Klux Klan robe in Rhode Island shocked many into believing racism was making a resurgence — but police say it was something else entirely.
The video shows the man skulking around a gazebo on Main Street in West Warwick at about 2 a.m. Monday and went viral on social media.
'It’s weird because I know there’s racism around here, but not like that. That’s a whole different level of racism.'
"When you see a pointy hood and two eyeballs staring at you, I mean what the hell else is it?" local Ryan Fitzgerald said. "It didn’t look like the boogeyman. It looked like the KKK to me."
He added, "It’s weird because I know there’s racism around here, but not like that. That’s a whole different level of racism."
The hooded man was also caught on surveillance video from a business named Candy’s Curiosities & Vintage. The owner said the video upset her.
"It churned my stomach to watch that," said Leslie Letourneau.
The video made national headlines and led to an investigation from the West Warwick Police Dept. Only days later, police said the jig was up.
It turns out the video was recorded by Fitzgerald and his brother Sean.
In a press release Friday, police said they had dedicated "significant investigative resources" to the incident and determined that the brothers had "orchestrated the event in an effort to generate attention on social media and in the news."
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The brothers admitted the scheme and provided evidence that they alone were responsible for the incident, according to police. The brothers told WJAR that Ryan wore the robe while Sean filmed him.
They also denounced the KKK, and police found no evidence that the two had any affiliation with the group.
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SPLC Finally Faces A Reckoning For The Political Violence It Stoked
Those who weaponize the language of justice while violating its core principles will ultimately answer for it.Klansman allegedly on SPLC payroll was 'true believer' white supremacist, not reformed infiltrator
The Justice Department announced an indictment last week against the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly funneling millions of dollars to the very extremist groups it claimed to be fighting.
In addition to allegedly having a hand in the planning of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia — which led to over $106.47 million in contributions in fiscal year 2024 alone — the SPLC has been credibly accused of bankrolling leaders and organizers in the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, the American Front, United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America, and the National Alliance.
'The SPLC engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors.'
Eager to reassure deep-pocketed donors, SPLC CEO Bryan Fair claimed in a recent video statement that the individuals inside various extremist networks whom his organization has funded were actually "paid confidential informants" tasked with gathering "credible intelligence."
Liberals rushed to embrace and defend Fair's suggestion that the SPLC wasn't backing its purported foes but rather "paying informants to expose and prevent violence by the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups."
This narrative might have survived the month had the identities of the SPLC's "informants" remained secret.
The New York Post, however, claims to have identified at least two of the eight radicals the smear- and fearmongering racket bankrolled.
The Post reported that one of the two alleged SPLC field sources referred to as "F-unknown" in the indictment was Bradley Scott Jenkins, an imperial wizard of the United Klans of America who regarded himself as the leader of the "true Klan."
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The SPLC noted in 2013 that the original United Klans of America — which was responsible for the deadly bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963 — "dissolved after it was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the 1980s, but in June 2011, longtime white nationalist Bradley Jenkins of Ashland, Ala., (now the UKA’s self-proclaimed imperial wizard) registered a domain name and attempted a comeback. Jenkins ... dreams of rehabilitating the Klan’s image."
Jenkins, a virulent white supremacist until his death in 2023 at the age of 50, not only revived a group that the SPLC identified as a "serious domestic threat" but reportedly showed no signs of reform or undermining the KKK's agenda, according to his son, Noah Jenkins.
Noah Jenkins, 24, told the Post, "When I went to the rallies with him as a kid, I never saw anything that made me think he wasn’t a true believer."
The wizard's son long suspected that his father "was working with someone" but figured that "maybe he got into trouble and was threatened by [law enforcement] to become an informant to avoid jail or something."
The SPLC did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
The other individual suspected of being one of the SPLC's alleged "informants" is April Chambers of Georgia.
According to the Post, Chambers is the "F-unknown" described in the indictment as a KKK member who, along with her husband, "an Exalted Cyclops" of the Klan, sued the Peach State over the KKK's unsuccessful attempt to participate in Georgia Adopt-a-Highway program.
The indictment alleges that "during the course of the litigation, known payments were traced from the SPLC to F-unknown which exceeded $3,500.00."
Chambers, who did not respond to the Post's request for comment, now apparently runs a home cleaning and handyman service.
FBI Director Kash Patel recently stated, "The SPLC engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, funded the very hate groups they claim to oppose, and then hid their operations from the public through shell companies and fake entities."
The SPLC has been charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
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WATCH: Glenn Beck drops red pill on SPLC indictment
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering for allegedly defrauding donors by secretly funneling over $3 million (2014–2023) to paid informants associated with extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan without disclosure.
Glenn Beck, calling the SPLC a “tool of the progressive engine,” sums up the charges like this: “They were bankrolling the very racists [they were] denouncing on the evening news.”
The question is: Why?
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn unpacks why he believes the SPLC would allegedly fund the very "extremism" it claims to fight.
If true, the revelations about the SPLC, Glenn says, follow the same pattern of “controlled extremism” that we see in “really ugly political systems” all over the world.
“First, you help create or intensify the very danger you publicly are claiming to fight. ... Money flows in quietly to radicals and to dangerous people, and it helps them become louder and more active,” he explains.
“The public then sees a bigger threat. The organization points that threat out and makes more money, more moral authority, media defense, and political leverage. And it's just lather, rinse, repeat, lather, rinse, repeat.”
Step two involves “[turning] labels into weapons” so that “extremist, terrorist, [and] foreign agent” become tools to “isolate opponents.”
“You chill people's association. You cut off funding. You make the public afraid to defend the target,” says Glenn, pointing to how Russia’s Supreme Court recently declared the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial an “extremist” organization and banned its activities in the country.
The third step, he says, requires cultivating “a climate where the map becomes territory.”
“Once a group is publicly targeted as hateful or extremist or subversive, the press, the foundations, the bureaucracies can begin treating the label as proof,” Glenn notes.
“This is where soft totalitarianism systems are born. You don't start with gulags. You start with reputational death, which kind of becomes a soft blacklist. You start funding the choke points and public fear. That's what the Southern Poverty Law Center was [allegedly] doing,” he continues, claiming it looks suspiciously like a “color revolution.”
He explains that “if an institution can inflate or steer the public perception of extremism, then it can help manufacture a crisis atmosphere,” which it can then use to delegitimize political opponents, pressure the media into conformity, justify surveillance and deplatforming, scare donors, churches, business, and individuals away from supporting the “wrong side,” and create moral permission for “extraordinary countermeasures” — even violence.
“Is that what the Southern Poverty Law Center was doing?” asks Glenn.
While he refuses to make premature judgments, Glenn says he “could sure make the case.”
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SPLC indictment BOMBSHELL: Charlottesville violence allegedly was a leftist-funded 'false flag'
Charlottesville, Virginia, became a flash point as tensions grew in August 2017 over the fate of American monuments that liberals deemed too racist to leave standing in public spaces.
A hodgepodge of protesters and counterprotesters — which included radical leftists, those opposed to removing Confederate statues, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists — descended on the city ahead of the so-called Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12.
Agitators helped ensure that the event went sideways.
'Trigger the violence because you can't stop the legitimate speech.'
Following a series of skirmishes between various factions, one demonstrator drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, injuring over 30 and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
According to the grand jury indictment filed against the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, this bloody and tragic event — which the American left politically exploited for years and former President Joe Biden cited as his reason for running in 2020 — was the product, in part, of liberal machinations.
The indictment accuses the SPLC — a liberal outfit whose bread and butter is smearing law-abiding conservatives as "extremists" — of funneling millions of dollars to the very extremist groups it claimed to be fighting.
In addition to allegedly bankrolling leaders and organizers in the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, the National Socialist Party of America, and the National Alliance, the SPLC allegedly "had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 'Unite the Right' event," according to the indictment.
This field source, who is not named in the indictment, allegedly made "racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees."
For their contributions to the cause, this field source was allegedly paid over $270,000 by the SPLC in secret between 2015 and 2023.
The SPLC did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
While its insider was allegedly setting the stage for the rally, the SPLC worked feverishly to emphasize the importance of the planned event, noting in an Aug. 7, 2017, Hatewatch post, for example, that "the event may well become a seminal point for the Alt-Right and the extremist hate fringe: It’s a bold move beyond the anonymity of web sites, message boards, pseudonyms and social media — a move to take the hardcore, racist, white nationalist message to the public square."
In the same post, the SPLC hyped the possibility of violence at the "'summer of hate' gathering of racist extremists from all corners of the country," noting that "the looming social chemistry on a hot summer weekend ... seems to point to the clear possibility of violence."
The bloodletting in Charlottesville proved to be a windfall for the SPLC.
Days after the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that "hate is a cancer and left unchecked it destroys everything in its path." Seeking to "help organizations who work to rid our country of hate," Cook announced that his company was making a $1 million contribution to the SPLC.
Soon thereafter, JP Morgan Chase & Co. pledged half a million to the SPLC, and George and Amal Clooney announced that they were dumping $1 million into SPLC to help it highlight the imagined dangers of white-supremacist ideology.
The Clooneys said in a statement at the time, "What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate."
According to the indictment against the SPLC announced by the Justice Department on Tuesday, such donations collected from deep-pocketed liberals "under the auspices that the funds would be used to 'dismantle' violent extremist groups ... was, instead, being used, in part, by the SPLC to pay leaders and others within these same violent extremist groups."
The SPLC allegedly poured over $3 million in such funds to field sources associated with violent extremist groups between 2014 and 2023. These money transfers were allegedly made through a series of bank accounts created in the name of fictional entities, including the Center Investigative Agency, Fox Photography, North West Technologies, and Rare Books Warehouse.
The revelation that an SPLC plant might have been involved in the Unite the Right rally would help explain why the organization was so desperate to attack the notion that the event was a "false flag" from the start.
In the immediate aftermath of the violent rally, Alex Jones reportedly accused the SPLC of hiring actors to dress up like racists and prompt a crackdown by police on the rally's legitimate attendees.
"That's the plan," Jones said. "Trigger the violence because you can't stop the legitimate speech."
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar (R) was among the others who similarly suspected something was fishy, telling Vice News in October 2017 that the rally was likely "created by the left."
The SPLC insisted that claims that the event was a "false flag" operation or that leftist infiltrators were among its organizers — Jason Kessler, the event's primary organizer, was previously an Obama-supporting Occupy protester — were ludicrous "conspiracy theories" that served only to demonstrate "the strength of the link between the conspiratorial extreme right (Jones, Infowars, Gateway Pundit, etc) and the racist 'alt-right.'"
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