A Southern Poverty Law Center employee allegedly used donor money to fund a romantic relationship with an informant in a “neo-Nazi” organization, according to a Justice Department superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
The indictment alleges that the employee was secretly paid more than $1.2 million in donor money from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Roughly $140,000 of the $1.2 million was then used to fund a romantic relationship between the employee and the “neo-Nazi” informant, according to the document.
The indictment alleges that a fictional “Tech Writers Group” was used by SPLC employees to launder money to various bank accounts.
The donor’s money moved from the SPLC to the Tech Writer’s account and then finally to the joint bank accounts held by the couple. The $140,000 laundered using this method made up about 66% of all money ever deposited into those joint accounts, according to the document.
The SPLC did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
“This investigation remains ongoing, and the superseding indictment returned by the grand jury reflects the results of that continued investigative work,” Doug Howard, a public affairs officer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Alabama, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Given the pending nature of the case, no further comment will be provided at this time.”
The Alabama-based charity denied the allegations and moved to dismiss the case on May 26.
The employee and the informant allegedly shared a house and two bank accounts between 2015 and 2021, according to the document.
The document also alleges that the SPLC reimbursed Ku Klux Klan members for cross-burning and uniform expenses.
The SPLC faces charges of wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to its field source program. If convicted, the organization could be forced to forfeit assetsconnected to the alleged scheme.
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