Trump DOJ charges far-left SPLC ‘fascism expert’ with fraud for funding KKK– www.lifesitenews.com

(LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Department of Justice has formally charged Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “fascism expert” Heidi Beirich with making fraudulent payments to extremist groups with donor money as part of a broader probe into the far-left organization’s activities.

As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging SPLC with allegations that it used millions of dollars in donations to fund groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Aryan Nation in order to foment racist hatred and unrest as a means of keeping its purported mission of “dismantling” hate alive, largely through the payment of “field sources,” who were ostensibly informants but are accused of actually promoting the very behavior SPLC purports to monitor, all without letting donors know how their money was being used.

In June, the New York Post reported on a DOJ filing detailing how an individual identified only as “Employee-2” and described as someone “who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project” maintained a “romantic relationship” with an informant identified as F-9 who was embedded in the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. It determined Employee-2 was none other than Beirich, who had authored a 2015 article on the National Alliance that matched the indictment’s allegation that Employee-2 wrote such an article based on material stolen from the group’s headquarters the year before. A different informant was allegedly paid off to take the blame for the theft.

This week, CNN reported that Beirich has been arrested in California and indicted on allegations she “oversaw payments of donors’ money” to the hate groups. “I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” said U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the U.S. attorneys and the agents working the case will keep on working it even after the initial indictment.”