Attorney for SPLC expecting a superseding indictment in fraud case

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Source: msn/CNN Politics

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During the initial hearing in the Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, an attorney for the civil rights group said he believes a second indictment might be coming in the case. The attorney, Abbe Lowell, told a federal judge in Alabama that a superseding indictment in the case could mean a trial date — currently expected to be in the fall — would need to be pushed back.

The SPLC has been charged with using fictious companies to secretly pay informants inside of extremist and racist groups over the span of a decade. The group, however, says the informants passed along valuable information about the extremist groups that the Justice Department itself has relied on in certain cases.

Thursday’s hearing in Montgomery was the first in the case against the SPLC over a practice which, according to prosecutors, the civil rights group has been engaged in for 20 years. SPLC CEO Bryan Fair pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including wire fraud, making false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

While the organization, founded in the early 1970s, has been known for its work investigating and tracking extremist groups, Republicans have accused the SPLC of unfairly labelling conservative organizations and individuals as extremists.

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Republicans have accused the SPLC of unfairly labelling conservative organizations and individuals as extremists.

Because all of them ARE RW loon extremists.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Jeezus, we are governed by crooks and liars

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. "...unfairly labelling conservative organizations and individuals as extremists."

Okay then, let's find out. Let the SPLC present their findings in court and then the DOJ can respond by showing that it is not true.

The discovery alone would bring the entire thing to a halt, once they realized what they would have to admit to.

[MoseShrute]

4. Sounds like

Sounds like, if true, they followed the business model of the CIA. Maybe the FBI? I don’t know. SPLC clearly isn’t law enforcement, but I’m not seeing fraud, especially if they were exposing domestic terrorist groups. And, by the way, EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN.

[Native]

5. a guy at my gym yesterday told me the SPLC has been funding the KKK to keep them going so they, the SPLC, would have

more business. Said that they needed to do this because the FBI got rid of all the racist groups like the KKK back in the '90s, and the SPLC would have ceased to exist unless they ginned up cases. This is what MAGAS believe. Said if I don't believe him, all I'd have to do is look it up. He also said he liked Kash Patel. As soon as he said that, I said, "The fact that you like Kash Patel says it all. I've heard enough," and I walked away shaking my head. He said all of this at the entrance counter where 3 young, black men and one young, white woman were working. He was addressing me and the white worker. He later came up to me while I was on an elliptical and said, "You really need to look that up. You'll see I'm right. And I'll concede that Kash is in over his head." I just laughed and sarcastically said, "Ya think?" Living in Florida is never dull.