Feeding Frenzy? Florida AG Opens New Fraud Probe Into SPLC
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched a civil fraud investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its use of donor funds to pay informants within hate groups. This comes amid an ongoing federal criminal case alleging bank fraud and money laundering by the SPLC. The state probe could expose additional vulnerabilities in the organization's financial practices under state tax laws.
- ▪The SPLC faces a federal criminal indictment for bank fraud related to payments to informants in hate groups.
- ▪Florida AG James Uthmeier is investigating whether the SPLC deceived donors and violated state charitable trust laws.
- ▪The probe demands records on donations from Florida residents, informant payments, and fundraising entities used by the SPLC.
- ▪Uthmeier alleges the SPLC may have operated a deceptive scheme by funding the very groups it claims to oppose.
- ▪Legal experts suggest this could prompt similar investigations by other state attorneys general.
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Feeding Frenzy? Florida AG Opens New Fraud Probe Into SPLC Ed Morrissey 12:40 PM | May 05, 2026 AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin The more the merrier? When it comes to interstate fraud, that may be more true than the Southern Poverty Law Center knows. And more than it can withstand, too.The SPLC already faces a federal criminal indictment alleging fraud and money laundering in its use of donor funds to pay off hate-group leaders and organizers, including the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. So far, the Department of Justice has only indicted the organization and not any of its leaders.
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