SPLC Funded Racists, charged with fraud.

[Owlwatcher]

I've known this for years and the organization was shady but now they've been charged with fraud. Funding racist organization s and activists to stage protests and making up social media race bating when there wasn't enough real racism. This was also done under Obama and Biden and the DOJ and FBI were chasing ghosts and shadows while real domestic issues went un investigated.

[Astyanax]

Just the latest effort at subversion and repression by the racists and hatemongers who have taken over the US government. No doubt the indictment will collapse like most of the Trump DoJ’s other futile efforts to impose its vicious agenda on Americans.

The investigation could add to concerns that Trump’s Republican administration is using the Justice Department to go after conservative opponents and his critics. It follows a number of other investigations into Trump foes that have raised questions about whether the law enforcement agency has been turned into a political weapon.

Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants

[IDELB2006]

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From your link:

The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.

I have seen many people here and at ats make the same exact claim against the FBI. Maybe the FBI doesn't like the competition.

It looks like another weak argument that won't even make it to trial.

[Sky727]

Looks like they will nail the guilty ones.... ?  There is so much fraud and crime the world over it is looking like it might be time for another selected Sodom and Gomorrah...... Which by the way that was a fragmented air burst Meteor 

[Owlwatcher]

I remember back in Trump's first term when the alarm was that racism would increase. Just like the alarm was that racism would increase under Obama. neither of which happened. And now they are pushing for anti semitism which I guess is being nurtured by the left to some extent but i do think it is being exaggerated. 
     But the SPLC had a spokesperson in an interview by MSNBC and this guy just came across as smarmy and as shady as a used car salesman. Was it ten years ago, 15 ago, it was a while back. 
    But it is nice to see MAYBE the FBI is back to chasing real criminals.

[govshill2]

This explains why we always saw The MSM blaming the wrong groups and people for crimes and riots.

SPLC is claiming they were using informants to help FBI and other police.
Many now think it was not, and was actually politically motivated!!
 
Will be interesting to finally see who was actually on the inside and what those people really represented!
 

[RazorV66]

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So you are against prosecuting criminals who funded racist and extremist groups while claiming to fight against those same groups?

Clown world.

[Astyanax]

So you are against prosecuting criminals who funded racist and extremist groups while claiming to fight against those same groups?

Clown world.

But are they criminals? The prosecution needs to succeed before that is established. 

In the meantime, given the respective legal track records of this administration and the SLPC, I'm putting my money on the latter.

[govshill2]

Some neat out takes from an article...............


DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud amid denials from civil rights group

"Charlottesville"   !!!!!!!!!!       Funding The KKK and Unite the Right   ​​​​​​​

The indictment, just 14 pages, details a number of informants employed by the SPLC, including those monitoring the planning for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a neo-nazi group, the Ku Klux Klan, and other white supremacist and antisemitic groups. 

Lying to Donors of all the NERVE!!!!!!   

“To that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it’s told its donors. It was not dismantling extremism, but funding it,” he said. 

“To carry out this scheme, SPLC created bank accounts in the name of at least five completely fictitious organizations that had no bona fide employees or legitimate business purpose,” he added, noting one informant was paid $270,000 over eight years.​​​​​​​

[ANNEE]

But are they criminals? The prosecution needs to succeed before that is established. 

In the meantime, given the respective legal track records of this administration and the SLPC, I'm putting my money on the latter.

I’m with you. The track record of vengefulness and retaliation against any group/organization that stands in opposition to the current administration is documented. 

Not that SPLC was squeaky clean in its early days. 

But I’d say they’ve done admirable work over the years.