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The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) including bank and wire fraud, charging the group in connection with a now-defunct program that used paid informants to monitor extremist groups. The charges include six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy...
Advocate - 11 hours 26 min agoThe Southern Poverty Law Center said Tuesday that it is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice tied to its past use of paid informants. Civil rights advocates warn that it could have devastating implications for organizations that monitor extremism.
WASHINGTON The head of the Southern Poverty Law Center said Tuesday that the civil rights organization was being "targeted" by the Trump administration with a criminal investigation that appeared to focus on the group's use of confidential informants that gathered evidence on "extremely violent groups."Bryan Fair, the interim chief executive of the group, said in a video posted Tuesday that the 55-year-old organization was facing a "serious" threat: "a criminal investigation...
Until recently, the civil rights group was a partner to the FBI, providing critical information about extremists, including white supremacists, operating in the U.S.
The Southern Poverty Law Center announced via YouTube Tuesday that it is now the target of an investigation by the Department of Justice.
Justice department's focus seems to be on SPLC's prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, group's CEO says The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent civil rights organization, the group's CEO said on Tuesday. Bryan Fair, the CEO of the SPLC, said the details of the investigation were not entirely clear, though "the focus appears to be on the SPLC's prior use of paid confidential informants...
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced Tuesday that it is under investigation by the Department of Justice, a move that comes after the Trump administration has repeatedly admonished the civil rights group. SPLC's interim CEO Bryan Fair said the group does not have all the details, but that the investigation appears to be focused...
The Stonewall legacy is not only what happened in 1969, but the refusal, generation after generation, to accept erasure as the final word.
Civil rights group logs 300% yearly rise from before war and says authoritarian repression went into overdrive' A civil rights group dedicated to the defense of pro-Palestinian speech said that requests for legal assistance linked to Palestine-related activism in the US continues to far surpass pre-2023 levels, having logged 300% more requests for support last year than in any year prior to Israel's war in Gaza. Palestine Legal logged some 1,131 requests in 2025. That was less than the record...
Sargent Shriver's recently discovered memoir gives a first-person account of the War on Poverty.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says it's the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department and faces possible charges over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. The civil rights group made the announcement on Tuesday, reports the AP , saying President Trump's administration appears to...
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