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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on federal fraud charges that accused it of illegally raising millions of dollars to pay informants in white supremacist and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.An Alabama grand jury returned an indictment on April 21 with 11 counts of wire fraud, making false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the Justice Department (DOJ).Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said SPLC used paid operatives within extremist circles to incite and intensify racial tensions, arguing the group fostered the very threats it claimed to fight.“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Blanche said in a statement.
And I'm sure we'd all be impressed at the lifestyle those at the top of SPLC enjoyed.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) laid out what he called a deliberate decision by the Biden Justice Department to abandon an active investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center. He argued the organization had become embedded so deeply into the Justice Dept.'s operations that prosecuting it would have meant prosecuting one of the DOJ's own political allies.Jordan pointed directly to the now-infamous Jan. 23, 2023, memorandum from the Richmond FBI field office, which cited the SPLC as a source and used it to justify targeting pro-life Catholics as potential extremists and domestic threats. "That memo says, if you're a pro-life Catholic, well, you're an extremist, you're dangerous," Jordan said. "The SPLC became part of the weaponized effort of the Garland Biden Justice Department against the American people."Jordan then dropped what may be the most damning detail yet: The Biden DOJ had opened an investigation into the SPLC and knew it was a racket — only to quietly kill the inquest. "They had opened an investigation. They were looking into this group. They knew the Southern Poverty Law Center was running a scam, but they dropped the case," Jordan said. The reason, Jordan pointed out, was brazen and simple: "When you meet with them, consult with them, have them train your prosecutors, well, guess what? You're not gonna prosecute them."
Biden’s DOJ Protected SPLC From Scrutiny, Dropped DOJ Investigationhttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/20/bidens-doj-protected-splc-from-scrutiny-dropped-doj-investigation-n4953074
Jordan claimed the previous administration's DOJ, under then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, discovered the SPLC was operating what has been described as a lucrative scam. "They had opened an investigation. They were looking into this group. They knew the Southern Poverty Law Center was running a scam, but they dropped the case," Jordan said. He detailed how the group had become so deeply embedded with the department, training prosecutors and serving as a key source for efforts that labeled pro-life Catholics and conservatives as domestic extremists."When you meet with them, consult with them, have them train your prosecutors, well, guess what? You're not gonna prosecute them," Jordan explained. "They're too valuable politically. You gotta use them for your political advantage. And that's exactly what the Biden administration did."
Once you get out of Washington, D.C. and a few other areas, federal judges have much less patience for the legal shenanigans that President Trump's opponents regularly pull. That's one reason why having the prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering venued in Alabama, not in D.C. or in the Southern District of New York, is such a huge plus.The judge assigned to that case, United States District Judge Emily C. Marks, ruled Friday against SPLC's motion to dismiss the indictment, in which it argued that "it is being vindictively prosecuted at the behest of various political actors—including the President of the United States—for engaging in speech protected under the First Amendment." The group also sought discovery, including production of internal DOJ communications and an evidentiary hearing; that was also denied.Marks ruled that SPLC "failed to offer some evidence tending to show animus on the part of the prosecutors involved in bringing this case and that such animus resulted in the prosecution," the standard to allow discovery, and that by failing to meet that standard it necessarily failed to meet the higher standard required to dismiss the indictment.SPLC's theory of vindictive prosecution as laid out in its filings was just that, Marks said, a "rough outline of a theory" for which the group "expected the Court to fill in the blanks," which is not the Court's job. SPLC's theory, as best it can be understood, sought to link...Pre-indictment statements by people like President Trump, FBI Director Kash Patel, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and others,The re-opening of a 2019 investigation that was closed under the Biden administration,An October 2025 FBI report criticizing SPLC's Hate Map, anda "Post-indictment media blitz" by Trump, Blanche, and Dhillon,... as evidence of prosecutorial vindictiveness by the U.S. Attorney's office in the Middle District of Alabama. Marks observed, "The SPLC’s submissions stack speculation upon conjecture, relying upon hypothetical links in assumed chains to show prosecutorial vindictiveness."
