A federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released on Tuesday shows “clear fraud,” according to Mike Davis, founder and president of The Article III Project, a conservative legal advocacy group.
A Montgomery grand jury returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and money laundering.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme.
According to the indictment, starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website, according to the DOJ.
Davis said during an interview on Wednesday on Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle" that he expected a superseding indictment to be filed naming some individuals employed by the SPLC as defendants.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center told its donors that it was fighting the Klan when in fact the SPLC was funding the Klan. That is clear fraud. They got charged with wire fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy. If these allegations are true, the SPLC is not going to survive this,” Davis said. “There’s no question. I fully expect a superseding indictment where they name the executives as defendants and others.”
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