DOJ Alleges Southern Poverty Law Center Funneled $3 Million to White Hate Groups
“Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable.”
A federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on numerous charges, including funneling money to white hate groups.
Kash Patel on the Southern Poverty Law Center: "They used their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups, however the SPLC … used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups." pic.twitter.com/JBlYFZVrjI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 21, 2026
The indictment includes 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment: “As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.” pic.twitter.com/jWcouiPJ54
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) April 21, 2026
The DOJ just revealed that this KKK rally in Charlottesville, VA was paid for and organized with @splcenter help https://t.co/HIJqS0jDO0
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) April 21, 2026
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including:
Ku Klux Klan United Klans of America Unite the Right National Alliance National Socialist Movement Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party) American Front According to the indictment, the objective of the scheme and artifice was to obtain money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about what the donated funds would be used for.
In order to covertly pay the individuals, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the individuals. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts.
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and executed. https://t.co/Pj5GQLHmLa pic.twitter.com/KPGRvjGeQ8— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) April 21, 2026
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SPLC such a fraud.
Shut it down.
I’d still like an explanation as to where the $30 Million they have in the Cayman Islands came from and why they are stashing it offshore.
When the amount of racism needed exceeds supply, someone will step in to supply more racism.
Especially if they are paying high rates for manufactured racism
Well, the famous slander merchants can’t keep up their grift if there is no supply of racism of the sort they want to fight, so they financed it themselves.
Sounds a little like the media, doesn’t it?
Honestly, it sounds more like people trying to “fix the homeless problem” in California.
See that there’s an indictment against the SPLC made my day!
Not least because it’s something that a Kamala Harris administration would never have allowed.
SPLC is exceptional only in that anybody listened to it.
Apparently the good folks over at the NYT are still all in. Their hot take is that SPLC was paying “inside informants” as in “nothing to see here. They were just keeping secret tabs on the hate group”.
Wow.
NOBODY had this on this year’s card.
Patel sure is in Conan mode now!
“Crush your enemies — drive them before you — hear the lamentation of their AWFLs!”
Now, start taking down all the federal departments that used SPLC hate lists as “authoritative sources.” And as it happens, Patel is in an ideal position to start.
By Crom!
Note that the Patriot Front is nowhere to be found on that list.
They didn’t need SPLC money, they were an FBI wholly-owned subsidiary.
Did the SPLC even try to infiltrate them?
Couldn’t. There’s a armed checkpoint at the Quantico gate.
They funded the “Unite the Right” rally. An attendee was convicted of murdering someone at the rally.
Did the SPLC fund that murder?
They didn’t “fund the rally”. They paid one member of the organizing committee. The murder did not occur at the rally but shortly afterwards, and the murderer presumably had no direct connection to F-37 or any of the other organizers. I don’t think any of the organizers can be held liable for the murder.
But speaking of which:
It wasn’t a KKK rally, even if SPLC propaganda called it that. There may or may not have been KKK members present, but the vast majority of those attending were not racists, and the rally itself was not a racist event.
Here Ben Domenech makes the same mistake as so many leftists do, of conflating the rally on Saturday, that devolved into a riot and was tainted by a murder in its aftermath, with an openly antisemitic march that took place on Friday night.
The march was antisemitic, and as far as I know no one on the right has ever made any excuses for it or said anything nice about it. Certainly President Trump never did. But it had nothing to do with the rally that was to take place the next day. That was the one that attracted “some very fine people”, as did the leftist counter-rally. Both also attracted some vicious and violent people, including members of KKK, Antifa, and various other evil groups, and including the murderer.
Sure, Milhouse. I’m sure you have never heard of money laundering?. SPLC has millions in the Cayman Islands, at one point over $100 Million, which they funneled back to these hate groups which disbursed them to either pay the expenses for a protest such as signs, transportation etc or directly pay people to show up. We all know this is going on. Patel is the first one to throw a flag on it and I bet SPLC isn’t an outlier, either. He isn’t done
There is nothing in the indictment to indicate that anything like this happened with the Charlottesville event.
Since it was apparent that race hoaxes weren’t moving the needle, the SPLC had to move on to funding and promoting these tiny little Nazi groups.
“Dang it, you crackers just won’t be up front about your raysissms, which are buried so deeply as to be indetectable to the naked eye, so we will create some fake but accurate groups and incidents so we can continue our grift and continue to construct effective elephant repellers”.
Upvoted just for the elephant charm reference.
My dogs inform me daily how effective and efficient they are at securing the homestead from crocodiles. TBH, there’s not been a single sighting of any wayward crocodiles…. though a few years ago we did have a smallish/younger male alligator (maybe 7 ft) but that was before the current crop of dogs time. He was just looking to stay out of the boss alligator’s way during breeding season and local drought made my ponds attractive as getaway for few weeks. He was actually kinda polite, didn’t eat anything but turtles and fish, never came after me or the goofy English Mastiff I had at the time.
It’s called “priming the pump”.
If your object in raising donations is to fight racism, then if you can’t find any you retire happily and find something else to do. If, however, your object in fighting racism is to raise donations, then if you can’t find any you have to make some.
It’s like the difference between the housewife and the cat in their attitudes to mice. The housewife wants the mice completely gone. The cat, however, doesn’t want that at all. It wants to kill as many mice as it can now, but it also wants there to be new mice tomorrow. Getting rid of them all doesn’t serve its purposes at all.
That might be one thing it’s called.
It’s also called fraud.
Kinda like the phone solicitations for bleeding heart causes. But when you ask how much of your contribution actually goes to the cause, the answer is usually “at least 12%,” which is code for exactly 12%. There seems to be something magic about that figure. It means that 7/8 of the collections go to “overhead,” i.e. the grifter’s “salary.”
How many other leftist organizations are doing the same thing? SPLC can’t be that unique.
I mean, this sounds like a modified version of Operation Fast and Furious. I’m guessing it was used a whole bunch.
A whole lot of money is being sloshed around the left to pay “protesters” and people to show up to rallies. This has been going on for years. I remember attending the rally at the Coast Guard Academy in CT where Pres Bush was speaking and the nuts on the left arrived on school buses. When they were done being stupid there was a guy paying each person as they got back on the bus. My wife and I watched it laughing.
The demand for racial hate crimes has always far exceeded the supply.
Even so, I did NOT see this coming at all.
And they’ve been funding the KKK since 1980, at least??
LOL!!
This just totally made my day!
This needs to be brought to the attention of the IRS – terminate the non-profit status of SPLC. Doesn’t have to wait for the trial to play out – just send them the evidence and they can decide on it themselves.
Oh, and any of you that have been hating on Kash Patel or Pam Bondi (the case was built on her watch) need to take back 10% of the nasty things you’ve said about them. Because this is just freaking epic!
SPLC actually did some decent work way back decades ago. I think the notoriety went to their head. Mission creep took a toll as new boogeyman were needed. Going around slaying the actual dragons, get a taste for the fame and prosperity that brings but eventually you run out of dragons…so you gotta either invent some new dragons or close up shop and retire. The SPLC had been losing relevance, coasting on reputation and the access that brought them doing more muckraking with at nest very questionable lists of ‘hate groups’ which at worst were fabrications. For about a decade and a half they’ve rapidly declined. Lots of shady financial dealings and offshore accounts, political influence buying/selling, internal strife, harassment scandals. Hopefully this set of DoJ charges are but the first nail in the coffin for the entire grievance grifter industry selling weak/false claims of ists, isms, phobes.
John O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing
I think at this point we can just call it O’Sullivan’s law, since he never did come up with a second one. He may yet do so, but it’s been nearly forty years, and he’s 84, so he probably won’t.
So did Sullivan steal that from Conquest, or vice versa?
Neither. O’Sullivan coined it and Conquest has nothing to do with it.
And they likely weren’t even part of that single useful thing of demanding bodycams on the po po. As soon as I finish here, it is time to see what be new on Police Activity. I love it when a grift backfires.
SPLC’s biggest problem isn’t that someone finally went after their little influence operation. The biggest is that they didn’t get the charges dropped in a DC or NYC courtroom where they had zero chance of being found guilty of anything. They were indicted in Alabama where they are headquartered.
Did Alex Jones fund the actual, really happened Sandy Hook killings in order to raise money to fight anti-gun activists by claiming they staged a false flag, mock killing operation?
Wonderful. Nice to have a DOJ/FBI that is finally going after leftist hate groups instead of aiding and abetting them.
Now let’s see about Soros and Singham, who have been doing the exact same thing, but in exponentially larger sums and locals.
Those “mystery” piles of bricks for pantifa and BLM had to come from somewhere…
Given what we know now, this paper (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8250541/#Abs1) did not age well. It is a compendium of snipes against PRESIDENT Trump and other Republicans, including Lincoln(!), while ignoring the direct contributions to racism my Johnson and Obama, among others. References to “dog whistles” that only the left can hear are indicative of the subjectiveness of this publication.
Bottom line: the left is the primary purveyor of racism, both superficial and systemic, in America, at least since the Civil War.
They’re not ripping off donors. They probably are among the donors that SPLC ripped off.
They may not have been “ripped off”, in their view. Soros, etc, are interested in disrupting the US government, subverting the orderly operations of the Republic, and the SPLC keeping the race card in the deck by keeping the KKK and nazi organizations funded is a feature to them, not a bug.
“Ripped off” wink wink nudge nudge.
Especially the first sentence!
Just the fact that a paper on racism in the American presidency was published by the National Institututes of Health tells you all you need to know. Were all the NOAA oceanographers and FAA Air Traffic Control experts too busy to publish this crucial information?
Check out this headline from USA Today:
Key civil rights group indicted for paying informants. But FBI does it too
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/22/splc-indicted-paying-sources-fbi-pays-informants/89726011007/
They are absolutely NOT being indicted for paying informants. That’s complete BS.
Yes, they are, and yes, the FBI does the same. Like the SPLC, the FBI is responsible for a lot of the crimes it purports to prevent. Exhibit A: Whitey Bulger. Exhibit B: The Hutaree militia in Michigan in 2010, and the group that was supposed to have plotted to kidnap Whitmer in 2020.
Oh, but NOW the left is against that! Welcome to the party, you abhorrent bastards.
But here’s my offer — squash ALL the pay-to-entrap schemes by ALL parties.
You’ll notice that they are all engineered to benefit the left no matter WHO is paying.
You think it will hurt my feewings to admit, “Yeah, the BIDEN and CLINTON FBI did that, too?”
The USA Today is trash. Has been for a long time.
When I was a flying businessman, it was just a slip hazard to trip on on your way ot the hotel door every morning.
SPLC: the name screamed investigate us. It’s about time!
There have been whispers about the corruption at the SPLC since at least 1985, when I first heard the rumors. Why did it take 40+ years to do anything? Because the SPLC was an important tool for some part of the Feds? Seems likely.
The technique was used by Lenin and Stalin. In his dystopian novels about the breakup of the US, Matt Bracken spends 25 pages or so going over this technique.
Like “fact checkers,” who are realy “narrative enforcers.” You’ll notice they didn’t even exist until there were “important narratives” to enforce — leftist narratives that eventually were entirely debunked.