Indictment of Southern Policy Law Center

[Anonymous]

There are some serious issues here.

1. Absurdly large payments: $100K/yr to a single informant.

2. Violating KYC laws when creating bank accounts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fidelity and Vanguard just shut SPLC down for charitable contributions based on the federal indictment.

Things are looking up!

Guess I’ll be moving my funds and telling my friends to do the same. But not before I vote down every director and pay package and vote for every bonkers shareholder proposal.

Don't. This is a standard step that financial institutions take in these circumstances. Failure to do this can put an institution at risk of being charged with money laundering. This should not be understood as Fidelity/Vanguard taking a stand on the legitimacy of the indictment.

[Anonymous]

If the Biden administration had indicted the SPLC, I'd think there might be some substance to the accusations. But the Trump administration has zero credibility when it comes to charging political enemies with so-called crimes.
Now the SPLC will have to spend millions defending themselves. They will win, but meanwhile, their image has been tarnished, which is the aim of the Trump administration. The Trumpers want to use the DOJ to vanquish their enemies, ie those groups and people who care about equity and fairness and the rule of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some serious issues here.

1. Absurdly large payments: $100K/yr to a single informant.

2. Violating KYC laws when creating bank accounts.

link, please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The SPLC had to keep the hate orgs around so they had something to fundraise against. It would be like a cancer foundation going around encouraging people to cook with teflon pans.

This is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some serious issues here.

1. Absurdly large payments: $100K/yr to a single informant.

2. Violating KYC laws when creating bank accounts.

link, please

Googoo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fidelity and Vanguard just shut SPLC down for charitable contributions based on the federal indictment.

Things are looking up!

Guess I’ll be moving my funds and telling my friends to do the same. But not before I vote down every director and pay package and vote for every bonkers shareholder proposal.

Don't. This is a standard step that financial institutions take in these circumstances. Failure to do this can put an institution at risk of being charged with money laundering. This should not be understood as Fidelity/Vanguard taking a stand on the legitimacy of the indictment.

Nope, it’s a rule they invented just now. They never applied that rule before.

[Anonymous]

So when the KKK meets these days, is there a single person there that's not an informant or undercover agent? Do they even get.a single patsy or is it entirely a circle of entrapment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the Biden administration had indicted the SPLC, I'd think there might be some substance to the accusations. But the Trump administration has zero credibility when it comes to charging political enemies with so-called crimes.
Now the SPLC will have to spend millions defending themselves. They will win, but meanwhile, their image has been tarnished, which is the aim of the Trump administration. The Trumpers want to use the DOJ to vanquish their enemies, ie those groups and people who care about equity and fairness and the rule of law.

The fact that an organization that fights hate crimes is a political enemy of the Trump Admin tells you all you need to know about MAGA.

[Anonymous]

SPLC had power to debank individuals and groups. They used that power to target Republicans. So they ended up with the Trump Administration indicting for the bank fraud they committed. Which in turn takes away their power to debank. Jeff Bezos testified to Congress that Amazon Smile cannot run without SPLC's screening product, and asked Congress to name an alternative.

[Anonymous]

So... the Justice Dept just walked back a public statement from Todd Blanche about the Southern Poverty Law Center

The SPLC alleged Blanche made "false statement" about lack of evidence the SPLC shared info w/ law enforcment

Here's the clean-up statement.. just filed in court

https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3ml4wirf3ns2o

kinda undermines the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fidelity and Vanguard just shut SPLC down for charitable contributions based on the federal indictment.

Things are looking up!

Guess I’ll be moving my funds and telling my friends to do the same. But not before I vote down every director and pay package and vote for every bonkers shareholder proposal.

Don't. This is a standard step that financial institutions take in these circumstances. Failure to do this can put an institution at risk of being charged with money laundering. This should not be understood as Fidelity/Vanguard taking a stand on the legitimacy of the indictment.

Nope, it’s a rule they invented just now. They never applied that rule before.

Of course they have. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SPLC had power to debank individuals and groups. They used that power to target Republicans. So they ended up with the Trump Administration indicting for the bank fraud they committed. Which in turn takes away their power to debank. Jeff Bezos testified to Congress that Amazon Smile cannot run without SPLC's screening product, and asked Congress to name an alternative.

That’s like saying that they have cops the ability to arrest criminals and the cops used that power to target people breaking the law. They “targeted”republicans because republicans are corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So... the Justice Dept just walked back a public statement from Todd Blanche about the Southern Poverty Law Center

The SPLC alleged Blanche made "false statement" about lack of evidence the SPLC shared info w/ law enforcment

Here's the clean-up statement.. just filed in court

https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3ml4wirf3ns2o

kinda undermines the case.

Of course, it’s a farce, but it doesn’t cost them anything outside of political capital and god knows that the administration doesn’t care about that anymore.

[Anonymous]

Trump DOJ opposes the release of SPLC grand jury transcripts, but what the memo *doesn't* say speaks volumes. Feds don't dispute the SPLC's account of the Trump admin's "gross misrepresentations" about the informant program.

-Adam Klasfeld