Thursday, August 13, 2026

Former SPLC CFO Arrested on Fraud Charges for Secretly Funneling Payments to White Supremacist Groups

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.

Read the newly unsealed superseding indictment here.        

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

A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the SPLC.

In April, Blanche said the grand jury indicted the SPLC on 6 counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.


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