The Southern Poverty Law Center’s recent indictment also raises questions about Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger. The two are intertwined because Spanberger appointed as a top safety official the FBI agent who used SPLC research to target traditional Catholics as extremist threats in the infamous “Richmond Memo.” Spanberger should now explain how such a discredited memo and such an indicted organization could come together in her safety pick.

Following an investigation by the FBI and IRS, the DOJ obtained an indictment “charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment of money laundering.” Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC is charged with channeling over $3 million to “various extremist groups” it purported to be opposing.

Said the DOJ’s press announcement: “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.”

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