The Justice Department indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center Tuesday, alleging the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
A federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on wire and bank fraud-related charges on Tuesday, the Justice Department says, accusing it of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them.
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
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, was indicted on criminal fraud charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate far-right organizations, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other
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