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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Here, the problem is that the SPLC specifically identified on its website certain groups that it was committed to fighting and then turned around and gave those same people/groups money. Under most circumstances, that would undeniably be fraud. [/quote]
IANAL )and thank you for your service as a prosecutor!), but I think what DOJ is saying (in press conferences, on social media, via Karoline Leavitt etc.) that SPLC was “funding the extremist groups” while in reality the evidence they have indicates they were paying informants who were either members of those groups who the SPLC had flipped, or SPLC plants within those groups. And I didn’t see any evidence in the indictment that they had lied to donors (unlike say, how Steve Bannon and others lied to the donors to the Build the Wall project.)[/quote]

There's an enormous gap between the allegations in the indictment and what members of the administration are saying about the indictment. The crux of the wire fraud allegation as described in the indictment is that the SPLC solicited donations by stating that it combatted specific hate groups and hid information about using donor funds to pay informants with these groups, and that SPLC intentionally hid this information because they understood that, if known, donors would be disinclined to donate. The idea is the SPLC told a half-truth knowing that donors would be less likely to donate if they knew the whole truth.
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