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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) used donor funds to pay Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members to remain with the racist organization despite their insistence on wanting to leave, according to a new superseding Justice Department indictment.<\/p>\n

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The new bombshell came as part of a new DOJ filing first reported Tuesday evening that expands on the allegations contained in the agency\u2019s April indictment against the SPLC. The department revealed that the SPLC \u2014 a far-left group known for putting targets on the backs of conservative organizations by falsely labeling them as \u201chate groups\u201d \u2014 had been charged with 11 counts related to allegedly making fraudulent payments to extremist groups like the KKK as part of a supposedly \u201ccovert\u201d informant scheme. <\/p>\n

In the Justice Department\u2019s new filing are allegations that the SPLC used donor funds to pay two KKK members who \u201cfeared for their safety from other Klan members and wanted out of the movement\u201d to stay with the racist group.<\/p>\n

Per the superseding indictment, an individual identified as F-32 saw \u201cmedia coverage\u201d about how the Southern Poverty Law Center had previously \u201chelped an individual leave an extremist organization.\u201d As a result, F-32 allegedly reached out to the SPLC to ask for assistance in getting \u201cout of the movement.\u201d The individual also requested help on behalf of another individual (\u201cF-31\u201d).<\/p>\n

Rather than fulfill their requests, the DOJ alleged that an SPLC employee \u201cencouraged F-31 and F-32 to stay in the movement and offered to pay them a $1,200.00 monthly salary as well as to pay for expenses as incurred.\u201d After being \u201cfinancially backed by the SPLC to do so,\u201d the two unnamed KKK members \u201cagreed to remain in the movement,\u201d according to the indictment. <\/p>\n

It was at that point that an SPLC employee allegedly provided an unidentified bank (\u201cBank-2\u201d) \u201cwith documentation\u201d maintaining that F-32 was a Rare Books employee \u2014 a purportedly \u201cmaterially false representation\u201d the DOJ claimed resulted in F-32 being given \u201ca Rare Books employee pay card.\u201d The agency further contended that an SPLC employee subsequently instructed F-31 and F-32 to tell anyone who \u201casked where the money came from\u201d that \u201cthey worked for Rare Books and that their job was to help college students research and write essays.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither F-31 nor F-32 ever researched or wrote any essays for any students, college or otherwise,\u201d the indictment reads.<\/p>\n

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Per the DOJ, while the SPLC asserted that the alleged payment scheme was for the unnamed KKK members\u2019 \u201csafety,\u201d such methods \u201cresulted in F-31 and F-32 being put in the type of dangerous situations that F-32 sought SPLC\u2019s help to get away from in the first place.\u201d What\u2019s more is that F-31 and F-32 allegedly used donors\u2019 money to attend \u201cextremist rallies in multiple states.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DOJ also shockingly claimed that the SPLC\u2019s alleged financial activities led to F-31 \u201crising from merely a group member to a leadership role within an extremist group.\u201d It was in this new post in which the individual purportedly \u201crecruited new members using donors\u2019 money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, F-32 similarly employed donor money to recruit new members, with one SPLC employee even knowing that F-32 \u201cused donors\u2019 money to purchase material to make Ku Klux Klan garments for others,\u201d according to the indictment. The DOJ conclusively alleged that the SPLC \u201creimbursed\u201d both F-31 and F-32 \u201cwith donor money for all expenses they incurred for cross-burning events to include the wood and fuel used.\u201d <\/p>\n

The SPLC also allegedly deployed similar tactics with a separate individual identified as \u201cF-30.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the DOJ, this person \u2014 who \u201cled the National Socialist Party of America, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and was the leader of a faction of the Aryan Nations\u201d \u2014 purportedly wanted to exit the \u201cwhite nationalist movement\u201d and sought the SPLC\u2019s help to do so. Similar to F-31 and F-32, the SPLC allegedly paid F-30 more than $70,000 in donor funds from 2010-2016 to stay in the radical group, with F-30 supposedly using these funds to \u201ctravel to\u201d and \u201chost\u201d extremist rallies, recruit new members, and \u201cdonate money to leaders of other extremist organizations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The SPLC pleaded not guilty to the charges brought in April, according to CBS News. The case is currently being litigated in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division. <\/p>\n

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