The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) investigation on Tuesday, June 9.
The hearing will explore “recently released information that the SPLC has provided funding to some extremists, raising questions about whether the SPLC is artificially inflating the domestic extremist threat and misleading its donors.”
The Justice Department said in an indictment last week that the far-left SPLC “used its donors’ money to fund leaders and organizations of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Alliance.”
“SPLC’s paid informants (‘field sources’) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that SPLC was condemning those same groups on its website,” the DOJ said in Tuesday’s indictment.
The department alleges that $4.1 million worth of tax-exempt funds were used to pay these individuals, whose activities also included recruiting new members and purchasing materials for cross burnings and KKK robes and hoods.
The far-left organization still faces 11 counts of wire fraud, making false statements to a bank and money laundering conspiracy, all charges filed in April.
