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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims
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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

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  • The Intercept·Apr 24

    “We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

    More than a dozen donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center feel that a recent Department of Justice indictment accusing the group of defrauding contributors by paying informants is farcical, the donors told The Intercept. “It’s simultaneously infuriating and laughable that they’re charging the SPLC with funding hate groups,” said Mary Wynne Kling, an Alabama native and longtime supporter of the group. Pointing to the SPLC’s long-standing work battling extremist groups, which included bankrupting the United Klans of America, she added, “We knew they were paying informants.” The indictment, filed Tuesday in the SPLC’s home state of Alabama, charged the group with fraud for funding hate groups and with money laundering for setting up fictitious business entities to route payments to informants. SPLC leadership has denied the allegations. Kling and over a dozen other donors to the group told The Intercept that by using its money to root out information on hate groups, the SPLC was doing exactly what they hoped it would with their dollars. Originally founded in 1971 as a civil rights-focused legal clinic, the SPLC struck on a lasting strategy of direct confrontation with hate groups in 1979. It soon shifted its focus entirely toward combating the

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