The Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on eleven federal charges, alleging the organization secretly funneled over three million dollars to white supremacist groups while claiming to combat extremism. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a grand jury in Alabama’s Middle District returned indictments for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering against the prominent civil rights organization.SPLC Allegedly Manufactured the Extremism It Claimed to FightFederal prosecutors allege the Southern Poverty Law Center created shell companies to conceal payments to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist organizations. The indictment claims these groups then staged hate crimes at the SPLC’s direction. Acting Attorney General Blanche stated the organization was not dismantling extremist groups but rather manufacturing the very extremism it purported to oppose. Director Patel revealed that donor money, raised from thousands of Americans who believed they were supporting anti-hate efforts, actually funded the leadership of violent extremist organizations the SPLC publicly condemned. The charges include six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Federal investigators uncovered a decade-long pattern of fraudulent fundraising, with the SPLC allegedly lying to its donor network while using those funds to pay the very groups it claimed to monitor. The case has been assigned to Judge Emily Marks, appointed during the previous administration.Controversial Hate Group Designations Under New ScrutinyThe indictment raises questions about the SPLC’s hate group tracking operation, which has influenced media coverage and corporate policy decisions for decades. The organization previously designated Turning Point USA as a hate group, placing the conservative student organization alongside the KKK and neo-Nazi organizations on its widely cited hate map. Critics have long questioned the criteria used for these designations, arguing they unfairly targeted mainstream conservative groups while the SPLC collected over one hundred million dollars annually from concerned donors.What These Charges Mean for Civil Rights AdvocacyThe indictment represents an unprecedented federal action against one of America’s most prominent civil rights organizations. Founded in 1971, the SPLC built its reputation on tracking hate groups and filing lawsuits against white supremacist organizations. If prosecutors prove their allegations, the case could fundamentally reshape how Americans view nonprofit advocacy organizations and their fundraising practices. The trial will test whether the SPLC violated the trust of donors who believed their contributions supported legitimate anti-extremism work rather than secretly funding the groups they opposed.SourcesThe Gateway Pundit: BREAKING NEWS: DOJ Indicts Far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts – SPLC Used Donor Money to Pay KKK to Stage ‘Hate Crimes’ (VIDEO)