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Subject: SPLC Indicted for Funding Extremist Groups | We the People Convention |
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Public Record
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in
donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist
groups including:
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Ku Klux Klan
United Klans of America
Unite the Right
National Alliance
National Socialist Movement
Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club
National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party)
American Front
According to the indictment, the objective of the scheme and artifice was to obtain
money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about
what the donated funds would be used for.
In order to covertly pay the individuals, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected
to a series of fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC
to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently
obtained donated money the SPLC paid the individuals. In order to keep the scheme
going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the
accounts.”
http://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/DOJ-FBI-Indicts-SPLC
diana dreiss