Earlier on the Fulford File: The SPLC Was NEVER A “Civil Rights Stalwart”—It Was ALWAYS A “Dangerous Joke”

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Yesterday, the AP reported what no one was expecting from the Trump Administration: Southern Poverty Law Center Charged With Defrauding Donors With Payments To Extremist Informants, AP, April 21, 2026.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was used by extremists to carry out other crimes, but court papers did not include specific examples.

Banking expert Patrick McKenzie pointed out on Twitter that Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) laws make it illegal to lie to your bank about what you’re doing with your money, e. g. saying “We’re totally not using this to pay undercover informants” etc.

Patrick McKenzie@patio11

A thing I once said about AML/KYC functioning as tripwires with the explicit intention that the process crimes they create would make life easier for prosecutors.

5:50 PM · Apr 21, 2026 · 15.8K Views

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He adds an image of the SPLC’s banking information being used in the the indictment and says

This is extremely common prosecutorial practice; the only surprising part is the defendant. (About which, doubtless your opinion journal of choice will have some column inches fairly soon.)

And here we are!

A search of VDARE.com archives says that I’ve been writing about the Southern Poverty Law Center for twenty-five years—and I’m not the only one.

They, of course, spent a lot of time writing about VDARE.com, and to a certain extent, me personally. It’s arguable that their attacks on VDARE.com inspired Letitia James’s persecution of VDARE.com, causing me to lose my job:

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