{"id":1150,"date":"2026-06-03T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:48:17","slug":"far-left-southern-poverty-law-center-reimbursed-klan-members-for-cross-burnings-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Far-left Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings: feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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 \u2014 even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a stunning superseding indictment filed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1148\">Miami biotech executive was followed into his condo by man who allegedly threw him from 25th floor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The feds initially charged the once venerable civil rights organization in April with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and money laundering conspiracy. Tuesday\u2019s superseding indictment, filed in Montgomery, Ala. federal court, lays out some of the stories of informants who were paid in money the SPLC raised from donors on the pretext of \u201cexposing hate and injustice\u201d and \u201cfighting discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" data-auto-height=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" id=\"scribd_1046548560\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/1046548560\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode&amp;access_key=key-gXlG93imn80I1MsppO5C\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>View this document on Scribd<\/div>\n<p>Two Klan members, identified only as F-31 and F-32, came to the SPLC in 2010 in fear for their safety and wanting to leave the hate group, the indictment alleges. Instead of helping them find a way out, prosecutors say, the pair were paid $1,200 per month, plus expenses, via a shell corporation called Rare Books Warehouse to remain in the Klan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1146\">Graham Platner cuts DC trip short after The Post starts asking questions about his past, as mother-in-law says: \u2018It\u2019s all bulls\u2014\u2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of that money, according to the indictment, was used to recruit new members and make the Klan\u2019s notorious white robes. Among the expenses the two were reimbursed for, per the court documents, were all the costs \u201cincurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1144\">Patriots lose $15 million free agent signing Julian Hill for season: \u2018Devastating\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Attorneys for the SPLC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a stunning superseding indictment filed Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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