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US Southern Poverty Law Center charged with fraud over use of paid informants
6+ hour, 2+ min ago (622+ words) By Jana Winter, Julia Harte and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) " The Trump administration obtained a criminal indictment on Tuesday charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group that tracks political extremists, with defrauding its own donors…...
Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on fraud charges over use of informants
6+ hour, 1+ min ago (431+ words) President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, accusing the group of defrauding its donors in its use of paid informants to infiltrate far-right organizations....
Southern Poverty Law Center says it's facing Justice Department probe
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (231+ words) (WASHINGTON) " The Southern Poverty Law Center is facing an investigation and potential criminal charges by the'Justice Department, apparently stemming from its past use of paid informants, the organization's interim CEO said in a statement Tuesday.' A Justice Department spokesperson did…...
Calmes: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden, please speak out against Trump
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (486+ words) Where are the statesmen when the state is under siege by the current head of state? I've been mulling that question, hardly for the first time, but on three occasions just in the last few days. As Jonathan V. Last wrote…...
Federal grand jury charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over hate ratings
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (129+ words) JTN: Afederal grand jury in Alabama on Tuesday indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, as the Justice Department accused the group that rose to fame during the…...
US civil rights group indicted over use of paid informants
3+ hour, 30+ min ago (478+ words) Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2026 The Trump Justice Department announced the indictment on Tuesday of a prominent US civil rights…...
What to know about the Southern Poverty Law Center
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (60+ words) The Washington Post The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups…...
RAW: FILE: DOJ ANNOUNCES CHARGES AGAINST THE SPLC
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (145+ words) Local 3 News The Justice Department announced on Tuesday a federal grand jury in Alabama had returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. Prosecutors allege the group engaged in financial crimes to track extremist organizations. 8 children between the…...
Grief in the Time of Social Media
17+ hour, 24+ min ago (318+ words) A new study shows the memorialization, solidarity, and grieving that takes place on social media when gang-affiliated youth experience loss due to incarceration. When someone is incarcerated, the pain extends far beyond the prison walls. Families and communities are left…...
MASSIVE!" Feds Indict SPLC For Using Donor Money To Pay White Supremacists To Stage Hate Crimes" (Video) " Conservative Firing Line
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (446+ words) A federal grand jury in Alabama has delivered an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the now-scandal ridden activist group that came to fame by suing Ku Klux Klan organizations into bankruptcy. Its next agenda was to…...