The SPLC is accused of “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose”

The US Justice Department has charged the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud over its funneling of more than $3 million to white supremacist and extremist groups, including the organizers of the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ Charlottesville rally in 2017.

In an indictment handed down by a grand jury in Alabama on Tuesday, the SPLC was charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the Justice Department and the FBI, the organization misled donors by soliciting money to “fight” extremists, then covertly funneling the money to the leaders of these same extremist groups.