Southern Poverty Law Center up to its eyeballs in legal stuff

U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Alabama reported that between 2014 and 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan and National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party). 

And you wonder why they always attacked conservatives and supported leftists.

A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme. The FBI investigated this case with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).

An indictment is merely an allegation of course, and all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

“The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public," said FBI Director Kash Patel. "They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups - even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes. That is illegal – and this is an ongoing investigation against all individuals involved.”

The SPLC is a non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, whose mission, according to its website during the relevant time period, was to be a “catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.” [Not to include Republicans, conservatives and anyone who even thought of voting for President Trump.]

According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website. 

“Donors gave their money believing they were supporting the fight against violent extremism,” said Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson. “As alleged, the SPLC instead diverted a portion of those funds to benefit individuals and groups they claimed to oppose. That kind of deception undermines public trust and social cohesion.”

"Today’s indictment reflects that no one, no organization, is above the law,” said Special Agent in Charge Sara J. Jones with the FBI-Mobile Field Office. “Charitable donors deserve transparency about how their contributions will be used, and those who betray that trust through concealment and fraudulent means must be held accountable. The alleged fraudulent activities of the Southern Poverty Law Center sowed hate-filled discord and spurred criminal conduct as set forth in the indictment. The FBI will continue to work tirelessly to protect the American public from financial crimes and to pursue justice against those who violate public trust."

Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including: Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party), American Front.

Holy hypocrisy Bat Person!

According to the indictment, the objective of the scheme and artifice was to obtain money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about what the donated funds would be used for.

In order to covertly pay the individuals, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the individuals. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts.

A conviction will result in the forfeiture of financial gains from the alleged illegal activities.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel made the announcement in Washington.

The details contained in the civil forfeiture complaint are allegations only, but c'mon, this has been going on since bell bottoms were in vogue. Time to close them down.

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Lyin' Joe and the pardoning of Hunter's crimes

"They can't touch you now, son."

Alleged President Joe Biden said that nobody is above the law but he left out the word 'almost'. As most people know by now, Joe has pardoned his son, Hunter, 54, of every crime he has committed for an entire decade of committing crimes.

Here are the crimes Hunter has been officially charged with: 

1. Tax Evasion. He had been indicted on nine counts, including not one, not two but three felonies for tax evasion including filing a false or fraudulent tax return for tax years 2016 through 2019. Also he failed to file and pay taxes and was accused of not paying $1,400,000 in self-assessed federal taxes and using funds for his 'high' lifestyle. 

2. Illegal firearm possession. He was convicted on three felony charges regarding the purchase of a gun in 2018, and this included making a false statement on the question as to whether he used drugs. [And you may recall that Hunter disposed of the weapon in a dumpster located near a school, which is another crime.]

Alleged Crimes that did not result in formal charges:

1. Money Laundering, tax fraud, and additional financial misconduct. His laptop, which turned out not to be Russian collusion, had information on it that show possible violations like money laundering and tax fraud. 

2. Violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). It had been alleged that Biden needed to register as a foreign agent based on his business dealings in China, Russia, Ukraine and Romania. Being above the law and possibly knowing Daddy would pardon  him, he did not register. 

3. Drug offenses. Reports, claims and photos suggest Hunter's involvement with drug [and prostitutes] but this has not been formally charged because he is the son of the U.S. President.

4. Sex related crime. Hunter's laptop depicted him as a whoring drug-addled son-of-a-president, but no charges have been filed, and if there had been, his daddy would pardon him anyway.

Although Biden previously said he would not pardon Hunter, he now claims that his son was "singled out," [unlike the J6 protesters who were not]. 

The pardon came before Hunter was expected to be sentenced on the gun and tax evasion crimes that he was convicted of in December. 

No prison time for the friends and families of the elite.

“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” President Biden said.

In other words, if you or I evaded paying our taxes to the tune of millions, bought a gun illegally and lied on the federal form for the purchase, then disposed of it in a dumpster near a school, and laundered money from Russia, Ukraine, China and Romania as it was earmarked for political influence, we would be forgiven by the President, even if we were not related to him or were his pal. 

If you believe that nonsense, then you might also believe that snakes have hips.

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Former Argentinian President Arrested for cover up of Iran terror attack

Don't cry for her Argentina

Former Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was arrested by orders of a judge on Thursday. She is accused of covering up Iran's involvement in the 1994 bombing at the Buenos Aires Jewish Center that killed 85 people and wounded 300, The Times of Israel reported.

The former president now serves as a senator. She is alleged to have signed a 2012 deal with Iran that would have allowed senior Iranian officials implicated in the attack to be investigated in Iran, not Argentina. 

Can you guess the verdict?

The new government in December 2015, which succeeded Kirchner's, President Maurico Macri said that it would not renew the agreement with Iran. In 2014, a court ruled that the pact was unconstitutional, but Kirchner appealed the decision.

In 2015, the files were declassified on two attacks. The Jewish community was appalled and devastated: the files were of the 1994 bombing and documents related to the 1992 bombing outside the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 and wounded 200. The Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group, Hezbollah, has been implicated in both attacks, but no one was ever convicted.

Kirchner is facing accusations of treason, as judge Claudio Bonadio asked lawmakers to remove the immunity from prosecution the witch has as a senator. For immunity to be lifted, two-thirds majority is required in the chamber.

The case returned to the spotlight all these years later after a Jewish prosecutor who was to reopen the investigation died mysteriously in what his family called an assassination. 

In November, Argentina's border police agency concluded that Alberto Nisman, who led the probe, was murdered four days after formally  accusing  then-president Kirchner of the cover-up in January 2015.

They can make a movie about this stuff.

Kirchner's cover-up role in the Jewish center bombing is the most serious charge, but she's also facing accusations of corruption and money laundering.

Hillary Clinton responded: "What, with liquid Tide?" 

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Manafort and Gates plead 'not guilty'

The Mueller drama ended early Monday morning after an announcement was made Friday that there would be an indictment in the Russian election meddling scandal. 

As many thought, the person who most likely would be the target of the indictment was Paul Manafort. His associate, Rick Gates, was also indicted with him, on 12 counts by a federal grand jury. The special counsel headed by Robert Mueller, handed down the indictment regarding the meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign officials in the 2016 presidential election.

The counts told to Fox News include conspiracy against the United States (not the same as treason, but conspiracy not to pay them money owed to the feds); conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements, false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts.

The alleged miscreants appeared before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson on Monday for their initial appearance and arraignment.

The indictment states that between 2006 and 2015, both Manafort and Gates acted as unregistered agents of the Government of Ukraine, the Party of Regions--a Ukrainian political party whose leader was Victor Yanukovych, president from 2010 to 2014, and the Opposition Bloc.

No mention of the Trump campaign was mentioned in the indictment as all the activity mentioned occurred well before the campaign of 2016.

The indictment states that both Manafort and Gates laundered the money through scores of US and foreign corporations, bank accounts and partnerships to hide Ukraine payments for U.S. authorities.

Manafort laundered over $18 million which was used by him to buy property, goods and services in the U.S. and concealed it from the U.S. Treasury and Department of Justice.

That's a 'no, no.'



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