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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s long-running scam is getting even shadier

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It turns out the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center.

At least that’s what the Justice Department’s superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges.

The organization secretly paid informants to engage in actively promoting and funding racist groups, while denouncing and “fighting” the very same groups in public.

The SPLC purportedly created fictitious entities to hide funding from their donors.

It’s accused, for instance, of bankrolling the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally, paying a leader nearly $300,000 to post racist messages, organize, and even transport people to the infamous Charlottesville protest, where one person was killed.

In another instance, a pair of white supremacists who approached the SPLC about leaving the Ku Klux Klan were encouraged to stay in the group and recruit new members.

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The two men were given salaries and allegedly reimbursed for the costs of their activities, including those “incurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.”

In the end, I’m not sure what the legal jeopardy there is in engaging in this brand of duplicitous activity,........

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