00:00We're here today is to announce what the general just told you. The Southern Poverty Law Center
00:06in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with allegations of fraud and using the banking
00:12system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here.
00:17The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise to raise money to dismantle violent
00:24extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They use their donor network to raise
00:29money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty
00:36Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership
00:42of these very groups. I just want to say that again. They used the fraudulently raised money
00:48by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the
00:53leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups. The groups, as the general laid out,
01:00include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, Unite to Right, National Alliance,
01:07the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club, and the National Socialist Party
01:13of America and also the American Front. In at least one of these matters, our investigation
01:20revealed that funds were used to facilitate the commission of further state and federal
01:26offenses, totaling over $3 million. Furthermore, our investigation revealed that the Southern Poverty
01:33Law Center, on top of perpetuating this widespread, decade-long, multimillion-dollar fraud, conducted
01:40more criminal activity. They attempted to hide their criminal activity from our financial banking
01:49network. They set up shell companies and entities around America so that the financial institutions
01:55that we rely on as everyday Americans were deceived in believing that money was not coming from the
02:00Southern Poverty Law Center in the perpetration of this scheme and fraud, but rather fictitious
02:05entities they stood up to perpetuate this ongoing fraud. This is a serious and egregious violation
02:12of a group that purported to dismantle violent extremist groups, but in turn actually only fueled
02:18the hatred. This is an important case brought by President Trump's administration. We're thankful
02:24to the President for his leadership and funding of not just the FBI and DOJ, but his commitment to go
02:29out there and wipe out fraud and conspiracy and waste and abuse wherever it occurs, including the
02:35Southern Poverty Law Center. Even though this money was made to appear to be coming from legitimate
02:41people and legitimate entities, we at the FBI, with our great partners at the Department of Justice and
02:47in the state of Alabama, were able to comb through a decade worth of material, a scheme that took a
02:52decade to
02:53build so that we were able to follow the money, because money never lies, and they got caught. As the
02:59Attorney
02:59General said, these charges are varying. They are widespread and wide ranging, and this investigation is
03:06very much ongoing. Today we're here to announce the charges of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and this
03:12investigation and the individuals who are responsible will be brought to justice. Thank you, General.
03:16As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead
03:22manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. The
03:32indictment describes this conduct in detail, but one troubling example is that the SPLC was paying a
03:39member of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017
03:47that resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more. This particular person being paid
03:55by the SPLC allegedly received approximately $270,000 over the course of eight years.
04:04In total, according to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least $3 million
04:13to eight individuals at least. These individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Clans of
04:21America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club,
04:29the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Nazis, and the American Front.
04:34This is a very ваŃиability exemplary present.
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