The big news this week is that Southern Poverty Law Center was secretly funding all the racist hate groups it claimed to be fighting.
The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now facing federal charges related to financial crimes, allegedly paid more than $270,000 to an informant who was a member of the leadership group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., according to federal prosecutors.
Acting U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche announced charges against the group on Tuesday, alleging it had defrauded donors by using their money to secretly pay informants inside extremist organizations. The group spent more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to informants involved with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America.
One “field source” for the SPLC “was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended the event at the direction of the S.P.L.C,” according to prosecutors. The antisemitic rally had hundreds of participants and saw a protester drive his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing one woman and leaving at least 19 others injured. The rally was held amid controversy over the removal of Confederate monuments, which local governments opted to take down in the wake of the Charleston church shooting. In 2015, a white supremacist shot and killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The “Unite the Right” rally led to a national debate over Confederate imagery and white supremacy. President Trump came under fire in the wake of the rally for saying, “you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” Later in the press conference, Trump added: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?”
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The SPLC informant, whose salary from the group was paid out between 2015 and 2023, “made racist postings under the supervision of the S.P.L.C. and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors say SPLC paid another informant with a neo-Nazi group more than $1 million over the course of nine years. In 2014, that informant stole 25 boxes of documents from an unidentified violent extremist group — documents that SPLC later used to create a report about the group.
Blanche says the SPLC was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing — not dismantling extremism, but funding it.” He also accused the group of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence.”
The SPLC’s revenue increased by roughly $80 million in the wake of the rally, from $51 million in October 2016 to $133 million in October 2017, according to Fox News.
Now, the group faces charges of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
You run into some definitional problems here. The actual indictment lists one of SPLC’s money recipients “F-30” as someone who lead “the National Socialist Party of America.” (Some online have identified F-30 as one Paul Mullet, the very first Internet search hit is his SPLC page which states “Paul Mullet is a neo-Nazi and Christian Identity adherent with a long history of theft. He has been involved with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations and formed the American National Socialist Party in 2010.”) Is someone who is a member of a “National Socialist Party” really a “neo” Nazi, or just a plain old Nazi? Are they “neo” because they’re not members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party?
Also: “F-unknown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.” Imperial Wizard is pretty much the highest rank in the Klan.
Another: “F-unknown was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and married to an Exalted Cyclops of the Klu Klus Klan.”
If you’re funding the people at the very top of a hate group, you’re not paying “informants,” you’re subsidizing the hate group.
Going through the indictment, it looks like SPLC was the actual funding source behind:
Many have noted that the demand for hate crimes greatly exceeds the supply, so SPLC had to secretly subsidize it. So the entire “The American Right are neo-Nazis” idea was not just a lie, it was an entire subsidized edifice of lies.
Hopefully these indictments results not just in convictions, but actual jail time.
Meanwhile, what are all those angry leftists who based their identity on “punching Nazis” going to do now that it’s been revealed that their side were the ones funding the Nazis all along?
Tags: Democrats, hate crime hoax, KKK, National Socialism, Paul Mullet, Social Justice Warriors, Southern Poverty Law Center
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) that the NR folks used the word “informant” – since that’s the talking point that all the leftist gasbags have been instructed to use (and claim).
These paid people were NOT “informants” – they were being paid under-the-table to provide “racists” and “racist incidents” for the SPLC to hyperventilate against and to fund-raise off of. Basically, the SPLC hired actors to provide a pantomime, fantasy “racist” coterie for them to have in order to justify their grift.
As Prof. Reynolds says, “It’s grift all the way down.”
If this were a TV series, the next twist would be that the SPLC was actually run by racists who wanted to support hate groups for their content, not just as fundraising opportunities.
After that twist, we’d learn that the racists at the top had long been disillusioned with racism, and were just in it for the money.
I’m not sure what the third twist would be.
To make matters worse, doubtless the money the SPLC used came from taxpayer funds that were grifted. And it makes you wonder what else is hiding in plain sight.
Michigan Secretary of State and this year’s leading Democratic candidate for Governor Jocelyn Benson was on the SPLC board during the period covered by the indictment. Michigan media is very subdued, to the point of complete silence.
What Northern Redneck said. The term “informant” is just incorrect. It should at least be in scare quotes in the reporting.
But obviously, right thinking reporters and editors can really only go so far on stories that might reflect positively on this administration.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s National Review.”
In a truly remarkable coincidence, Christopher Wray claims the groups SPLC has been funding represent about the same threat level as ISIS?!
“‘The top threat we face from [domestic violent extremists] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVEs), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,’ FBI director Christopher Wray testified before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [March 2, 2021].”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/wray-senate-hearing-capitol-riot-white-supremacists-b1810615.html
So yes, this was coordinated through the White House.
“Hopefully these indictments results not just in convictions, but actual jail time.”
That needs to start happening quickly or we’re toast in the midterms.