DOJ Charges Southern Poverty Law Center With Bank Fraud

The US Justice Department announced bank fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center related to $3 million in payments the civil rights group allegedly made to informants of extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan.

A federal grand jury in Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference Tuesday.