Former SPLC Financial Chief Who Slept With Neo-Nazi & Gave Millions Of Dollars To Extremists Arrested For Fraud, Attorney General Todd Blanche Confirms
AG Blanche confirmed arrest while speaking with reporters at the DOJ.
[AJL] The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in fraud by opening bank accounts in the name of fictitious companies and making payments to individuals for reasons other than those described by the nonprofit.
Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the arrest while speaking with reporters at the Justice Department.
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has ARRESTED the former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center on FRAUD CHARGES, AG Blanche confirms
Heidi Beirich was in charge of secretly paying donor money to “White supremacist groups,” and ran SPLC’s project tracking “hate groups” in the US
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“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Blanche said. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the US attorneys and the agents working the case can keep on working it even after the initial indictment.”
The ex-SPLC CFO, Heidi Beirich, is said to have diverted around $1.2 million to her lover who was an active member of a neo-Nazi organization.
Beirich was also accused of directly paying a KKK Imperial Wizard in addition to her sweetheart who either infiltrated or was an actual member of a White Supremacy group.
The boyfriend reportedly later stole documents for the SPLC.
Prosecutors say the former CFO’s romantic partner even shared a bank account, which contained $140,000 from those payments, with Beirich.
A superseding indictment in June charged the nonprofit group with funding the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and the National Alliance “unbeknownst to donors.”
“The SPLC actively led donors to believe that their donations would be used to ‘dismantle’ violent extremist groups,” the DOJ indictment charged, adding, “the SPLC hid from donors the fact that a portion of their donated funds was being secretly used to support extremist groups and to fund their violent, racist, and extremist activities. These activities were of the same nature as the activities about which the SPLC published articles on its website and other forums in an effort to obtain donations.”
Human Events host Jack Posobiec covered the news during his Wednesday broadcast:
THE SPLC INTELLIGENCE PROJECT DIRECTOR WAS JUST ARRESTED
THE SPLC INTELLIGENCE PROJECT DIRECTOR WAS JUST ARRESTED
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