Highly influential anti-racism charity, The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), is alleged to have secretly funnelled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America, between 2014 and 2023.
On the 21st of April, a Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an indictment charging the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit ‘concealment’ money laundering. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organisation’s fraud scheme. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated this case with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
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