SPLC Fundraised Off Of Charlottesville, Didn’t Disclose Its Role
““They fundraised off the rally they helped create and didn’t tell people. That’s a fraud in my view.”
The April 21, 2026, federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been a frequent topic here and I have had many media interviews because we have been following SPLC’s bullying and deceptions since 2009:
- DOJ Alleges Southern Poverty Law Center Funneled $3 Million to White Hate Groups
- We discovered 15 years ago SPLC was “creating fictitious hate so that they could then fundraise off of it”
- SPLC – The Racial Arsonist Fundraised Off The Fire
- SPLC False Flag Operations Reminiscent of Tactics Used Against Tea Party
- Karma: SPLC Tried To Cut Off “Hate List” Groups From Fidelity Charitable, Now It’s Cut Off
My most recent media appearance was on the Tony Katz radio show, which is syndicated nationally. Here’s the write up from Tony’s website, SPLC Lies And Deceit Must Not Be Forgotten:
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s recent indictment on charges of defrauding donors has sent shockwaves through the non-profit world. But what does this mean for the future of the organization, and what can we learn from this scandal? Tony Katz is joined by William Jacobson, a Cornell Law professor and the mind behind Legal Insurrection, to break down the details of the case and its implications.
As Tony explains, “The story of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the lies told and the deceit cannot be allowed to fall off the front pages no matter what the left wants.” The SPLC has been accused of presenting itself as a champion of fighting white supremacist groups, when in reality, it allegedly funded some of these groups. This has led to a significant blow to the organization, with Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and Schwab Charitable announcing that they will no longer advance funds to the SPLC.
William Jacobson shares his expertise on the case, explaining that the SPLC has been indicted on charges of defrauding donors, including allegations of bank fraud and creating fake entities to deceive banks. He notes that the SPLC’s fundraising numbers skyrocketed after the Charlottesville rally, which the organization was accused of helping to instigate. “They fundraised off the rally they helped create and didn’t tell people,” Jacobson says. “That’s a fraud. That’s a fraud in my view.”
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
I think saying that they helped create the rally goes beyond the evidence available. It may be true but we don’t know that. One of the informants they were secretly paying was involved in organizing the rally. That doesn’t directly implicate them in it. (And of course, despite their lies, the rally wasn’t racist, and not everyone involved in organizing it was racist.)
The *leader* they were secretly paying organized the rally.
Give us a break, Milhouse.
No, he didn’t organize the rally. There was no one person who organized it; the informant (there is no indication that he was a leader of anything) was one participant in a group of organizers.
If you think the person they were paying organized it, why don’t you give us his name? That should be easy to find out, if indeed there was a single organizer. But you can’t, because there wasn’t.
To (rather oddly) repeat the Attorney General, I’m not the one saying that.
The Grand Jury that indicted them did. (And it very specifically did not call them informants.)
I cannot name the leaders and organizers because the indictment did not name them.
No, it didn’t.
You claim that “the *leader* they were secretly paying organized the rally”. If that were true then it would be dead simple to find out that one person’s name. The very fact that you now admit the rally had “leaders and organizers” proves that your claim was wrong.
The individual paid by SPLC as an “informant” need not organize to incite those around him. He goes to the rally and starts conversations that causes others to be invited to violence. The same way the FBI used human assets as well as undercover agents to incite the J6 riots. The fact that SPLC fundraiser off of Charlottesville indicates that their whole fundraising scheme was set in place before it ever took place. They right the outlines of scripted emails and letters and wait for the images that they knew would be coming. Insert those into the emails and letters and voila!, the money rolls in.
That’s exactly right. The indictment is damning enough, but it doesn’t claim that the SPLC “helped create the rally”.
I’ll say this up front. I think the SPLC has done more harm than good the past several years. It has unfairly smeared the reputations of MANY good people and organizations, including among others, Dr. Ben Carson, a man who spent decades fixing the brains of babies. Just despicable. The world will be a much better place if SPLC loses its funding and is forced to disband.
But…..
Is it fair to say that because it paid a stipend to an insider for info that the SPLC helped fund the Charlottesville riot?
To make the claim the SPLC heled organize the rally, don’t you need evidence that the insider who received the stipend was directed by SPLC to perform some affirmative act that made the rally happen?
That an insider accepted a check from SPLC in exchange for passing info to SPLC does not strike me as helping organize the event.
Indirectly? Yes. Providing a financial subsidy to a person already known to be a bad actor within an existing racist terrorist group to deliver info to SPLC seems bad given the context. Did SPLC use the info gained to alert LEO counter terrorism? Seemingly no. Did the ‘informant’ merely inform or did he have a larger role in creating the events? Seems he did and he had a financial interest to do so b/c the payments from SPLC created incentives to do so. Which isn’t surprising b/c the SPLC itself has a financial incentive to report/publish the actions of racist terrorist orgs….and if the supply of those runs thin, threatening their ability to grift off race baiting/grievances the SPLC does have plenty of motive to create/incubate and foster the formation of racist terrorist groups/rallies and events.
I’m not aware of any good it’s done in the past two decades, and I’m far from convinced that it ever did any good.
But yes, claiming that it “helped create” the rally goes beyond the evidence.