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SPLC largely drove debanking of conservative groups, Treasury report shows

Arecent report from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) in the Treasury Department shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was a driving force behind the debanking of conservative groups prior to its indictment.

The SPLC is a left-wing anti-racism advocacy group that has faced scrutiny from conservatives for years over its alleged bias against them and penchant for labeling mainstream political figures on the right as “extremists.”

The group has also faced withering criticism from the left, such as Ken Silverstein, who followed its expelled founder Morris Dees for years for Harper’s and The New Yorker.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the SPLC with allegedly defrauding donors by paying exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations.

The SPLC has denied wrongdoing in the case, and said in a statement that “The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts and a misapplication of law. Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups.”

The OCC report, released last week, detailed the efforts of financial applications, banks, and other institutions to deny service to conservative organizations, particularly highlighting the SPLC’s role. Many of the groups the report documented had been labeled as hate groups by the organization. Driving much of the effort were broad reputational risk policies that the OCC generally swept up many mainstream conservative groups.

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SHOCKING REVELATION: Unearthed Video Shows Soros-Funded Candidate Jocelyn Benson Explaining How She Worked Undercover for SPLC—Was an Informant for The FBI

In an unearthed video, Michigan Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson can be seen campaigning for her first run for secretary of state in Michigan in 2010. The event was held in Houghton, Michigan, at a Democratic Party office. At the time, Benson was new to politics, but somehow caught the attention of George Soros, who apparently saw someone he aligned with in his quest to destroy everything good and decent about America and helped fund her campaign. To date, 4 members of the Soros family, including George Soros, have contributed a whopping $33,120 to Jocelyn Benson’s current 2026 Michigan gubernatorial campaign.

Jocelyn Benson is seen standing in front of what appears to be a kitchen, addressing a crowd of fellow Democrats. During her introduction, Benson said she was raised in Pennsylvania and that, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 2004, she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama. Although their stated mission is to root out “hate groups,” many believe the SPLC is in and of itself a “hate group,” used to target conservative groups by mislabeling and mischaracterizing them in an effort to destroy their credibility.

Benson doesn’t explain exactly how she became an FBI informant through her undercover work for the SPLC, but she makes sure to include this little tidbit in her resume when addressing potential voters.

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SPLC, FBI, TSA and ANTIFA Colluded Against Illinois Parent After He Fought Porn in Schools — New DOJ Report Ties It to Garland Memo

Biden DoJ sent the FBI to Terry Newsomes home March of 2023 under the false pretense of an investigation of ANTIFA targeting parents. At the time, Newsome didn’t know he was under an FBI investigation.

A Downers Grove, Illinois father who stood up at a school board meeting against the graphic book “Gender Queer” became the target of a tightly timed campaign that moved from an SPLC Hatewatch article written by a Chicago ANTIFA-linked researcher straight into federal action.

FOIA records, TSA documents obtained by Congress, and the sequence of events show that the pattern is not a coincidence. His case fits the broader pattern documented in the Department of Justice’s October 5, 2026 Weaponization Working Group report on the Garland Memorandum, which traced how the Biden Administration pressured DOJ to treat parents objecting to school policies—including explicit materials, CRT, and transgender policies—as potential domestic terrorists

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Bessent’s War On Left-Wing NGOs May Strip Soros Network, SPLC, And CAIR Of Tax-Exempt Status: Report

A new report from the New York Post maps out a multi-agency Treasury task force that could soon pursue a broad review that could strip tax-exempt status from George Soros’ far-left Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Treasury officials are drafting a framework to audit NGOs suspected of exploiting their 501(c)(3) status for political activity, illegal conduct or support of radical groups, the Post reported, citing three people familiar with the internal deliberations.

One source said Treasury Department officials were “like a dog with a bone” and reckoned that many NGOs and their donor bases could be “on borrowed time.”

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Race Hustlers Redux: How Low Can the Grievance Grifters Go?

One would think that the liberal race fizzgigs would look at the soon-to-be smoldering ruins of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and want to avoid the humiliation that goes hand-in-hand with lying about racism and funding it when there isn’t enough to go around, but no.

The SPLC is accused of paying millions of dollars to so-called “white supremacists,” including helping to fund and plan the now-infamous Charlottesville riot on Aug. 11, 2017, where a woman was murdered.

A Klan-hugger at the SPLC, Heidi Beirich, also got busted for paying Nazis to be more “Nazi,” including the goose-stepper she was sleeping with. 

The SPLC allegedly bribed white supremacy-types to remain in their bigoted battalions even when they wanted to leave. It also paid Beirich $190,000 per year, not counting the mad stacks she funneled into a joint account with her Klan-man cicisbeo. After all, if the truth were revealed that white supremacists are harder to find than Nancy Pelosi’s keys after a five-martini lunch, the donations would stop, Beirich would have to get a real job, and, even worse, racism might actually die in the United States. And without a racist boogeyman to scare black people, how can the Democratic Party trick black folks into voting for them?

Despite the SPLC’s shameful obloquy, the original attention-starved cockalorum bumboy himself, Don Lemon, couldn’t wait to beclown himself for clicks by joining the mayor of Gary, Ind., Eddie Melton, to blame “racism” for the reason Gary residents were still without power 13 days after a massive storm blew in.

What neither of these delusional tools discussed was that power linemen were being attacked by Gary residents as they tried to restore power.

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Figures. Southern Poverty Law Center Executive Was Sleeping with Prominent Racist and Paid His Bills

Sleeping with the Enemy.
SPLC executive hated racists so much that she started sleeping with one and paid his bills.

Who knew that being a top racist could get you such sweet perks?

You can’t make this up.

As reported earlier, former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) CFO Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and hit with fraud charges on Wednesday.

Beirich oversaw the payments to the informants inside the KKK and other white supremacist groups receiving money from the SPLC.

Here is Heidi speaking out against the dangerous hate groups in America, from the AP archives.

Heidi was so upset about the dangerous racists that she started sleeping with one racist and paid his rent.

According to Grok: F-9 was affiliated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance and worked as an SPLC informant for more than 20 years. At the SPLC’s direction, F-9 infiltrated the group. While receiving secret payments, F-9 also fundraised for the National Alliance and helped it carry out its activities.

Beirich paid F-9 more than $1.2 million in donor funds (most funneled through a shell account called “Tech Writers”). The broader informant program is alleged to have involved over $4 million total across multiple sources.

The indictment states Beirich (identified earlier as “Employee-2,” the person who became Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project) oversaw payments to F-9. It further alleges she and F-9 were in a romantic relationship, shared a house and two bank accounts, and that roughly $140,000 of the donor money deposited into those joint accounts (about 66% of all deposits there between 2015 and 2021) was used for their personal living expenses.

The SPLC led donors to believe their donations would be used to “dismantle” racist groups… Or, maybe not.

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Former Southern Poverty Law Center executive arrested over alleged secret payments to informants

ormer Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Chief Financial Officer Heidi Beirich was arrested on Wednesday, with authorities alleging that she made secret payments to informants in white supremacist groups.

The Department of Justice brought charges against the SPLC earlier this year over fraudulent payments. Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest in a press conference.

“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,” Blanche told reporters. 

Beirich has also been accused of cohabitating with and dating one of the informants whom she allegedly paid.

In June, the DOJ announced charges against the organization on 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The agency alleged that the SPLC paid people to remain in neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups to become informants.

Beirich’s arrest followed a superseding indictment that added her as an individual defendant, CNN reported.

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Trump Judge Denies Southern Poverty Law Center’s Bid to Toss Criminal Case

A federal judge on Friday denied the Southern Poverty Law Center’s bid to toss the criminal indictment on vindictive prosecution.

In May, the SPLC filed a motion arguing vindictive prosecution.

The hate group argued that the charges brought against them were a result of targeting by the DOJ and violated the organization’s right to due process.

US District Judge Emily Marks, a Trump appointee of the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, said it is just speculation that President Trump and Justice Department officials had a role in the criminal indictment.

“The SPLC has failed to offer some evidence tending to show animus on the part of the prosecutors involved in bringing this case and that such animus resulted in the prosecution, the showing required for discovery. Because it cannot satisfy that standard, it necessarily fails to satisfy the higher standard that would entitle it to dismissal of the indictment. Accordingly, the SPLC’s motion is due to be denied,” the judge wrote in a 36-page opinion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

The Justice Department in April indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.

The SPLC was indicted for secretly funneling more than $3 million in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups, the DOJ said.

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Documents confirm FBI’s own ‘memo’ goof, as bureau treated SPLC as ‘government agency’

A few years back, during Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House when Catholics and other Christians seemed often to be in the bull’s-eye of his pro-abortion, pro-transgender, pro-leftist ideologies, the FBI’s Richmond office came up with a memo.

It identified “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic violent extremists. Terrorists, in fact.

The disastrous claims triggered a congressional investigation, a review by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General and widespread comments about the religious profiling active under Biden’s regiome.

It was “withdrawn,” officials confirmed, for not meeting bureau “standards.”

But now the full truth of the matter is being revealed. It seems that the FBI’s claims were based on sourcing from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which agents at the time apparently were treating as a government agency.

The SPLC now, in fact, is under indictment for a number of counts for allegedly boasting to supporters about working to exterminate extremists, and then using donors’ funding to hand out cash to those very extremists.

At the time, the SPLC had claimed “radical traditionalist Catholics” are part of the people in America who “may make up the largest single group of serious anti-Semites in America.”

Now a report posted by the American Center for Law and Justice confirms at the time the scandal developed, a lawyer with the FBI’s Office of General Counsel, warned, “It seems that some of our folks may be equating a third-party organization with another government organization, and perhaps we need to remind the workforce about non-governmental organizations.”

The ACLJ explained, “That statement in and of itself is a remarkably dangerous implication of the Deep State.”

The ACLJ said it found the comment in a cache of internal FBI emails it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act litigation.

“The records reveal that the FBI’s own intelligence leadership quickly identified the fatal flaw in the now-infamous Richmond memorandum: The Bureau relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) subjective ‘hate group’ labels without first determining how the SPLC made those designations or whether its standards even aligned with the FBI’s own definitions,” the ACLJ said.

In fact, the SPLC routinely labels as a “hate group” any organization that does not comply with its own political, social and ideological agendas, including promoting transgenderism and abortion.

That leaves pro-family organizations like the Family Research Council, which was targeted in an attempted mass killing by a follower of SPLC ideologies, labeled as “hate.”

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“YOU’VE BEEN SERVED!” MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson Served By Former MI Attorney General Over Potential Involvement In Funding Hate Groups Like KKK While Member of SPLC Board

MCR Special Teams and the Mike Cox law firm served Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with Southern Poverty Law Center-related court papers on Wednesday evening.

Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox recently dropped his bid for the Republican candidate for governor. The highly unpopular Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is the likely Democratic candidate running for governor after being term-limited as Secretary of State.

Jocelyn Benson, who the Gateway Pundit frequently refers to as “America’s most dishonest Secretary of State,” is familiar with lawsuits. Benson has been involved in 69 election-related lawsuits during her time as Secretary of State. That is more than the combined total of the previous four Secretaries of State.

In addition to fighting an onslaught of election integrity-related lawsuits during her corrupt reign as Michigan’s top election official, it looks like she is about to be defending herself in yet another lawsuit. This time, Benson will potentially have to explain her role as a board member of the Southern Poverty Law Center during the same time the group has been accused in a federal lawsuit of paying hate groups like the KKK.

According to a federal indictment unsealed in April 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, false statements, and related offenses.

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