Metro Transit Review

The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a stunning superseding indictment filed Tuesday.

A Post reporter visited Platner’s stomping grounds in southern Maine — including his in-laws’ home and a restaurant run by the candidate’s mother — as the Senate hopeful was meeting with Democrats at their main campaign committee’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.