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Indictment Suggests SPLC May Have Fueled The Division It Claimed To Fight
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Indictment Suggests SPLC May Have Fueled The Division It Claimed To Fight

By Mike Davis | Commentary, Fox News Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured the indictment against the civil rights organization. Since the 1970s, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has characterized itself as an organization that combats extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This week, because of an indictment that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured through stellar leadership, we learned that SPLC wasn’t fighting the Klan — but funding it using generous donations from people who thought they were helping fight racism. James Alex Fields, a White supremacist, ran over and killed a Jewish woman named Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. ...
DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center Alleging Millions Funneled To Extremist Groups
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DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center Alleging Millions Funneled To Extremist Groups

By Alexandra Koch, David Spunt, Jake Gibson, Alec Schemmel | Fox News DOJ alleges SPLC used shell accounts and prepaid cards to funnel funds to individuals tied to the KKK and other neo-Nazi groups. FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a sweeping indictment Tuesday against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), accusing the far-left nonprofit of fraudulently paying members of extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. A grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Between 2014 and 2023, according to the DOJ, the SPLC "...
BLM Oklahoma Leader Charged in Massive Federal Fraud Case
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BLM Oklahoma Leader Charged in Massive Federal Fraud Case

By Cristina Laila | The Gateway Pundit An executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma was charged with wire fraud and money laundering. A federal grand jury on December 3 returned a 25-count indictment against Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52. Dickerson was charged with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. “On December 3, 2025, a federal Grand Jury returned a 25-count Indictment, charging Dickerson with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering. For each count of wire fraud, Dickerson faces up to 20 years in federal prison, and a fine of up to $250,000. For each count of money laundering, Dickerson faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the amount of the criminally derived property ...
Millions donated to Obama Foundation funneled to Tides for anti-Israel activism at Ivy League colleges
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Millions donated to Obama Foundation funneled to Tides for anti-Israel activism at Ivy League colleges

By Isabel Vincent | New York Post Millions of dollars sent to Barack Obama’s foundation has ended up being donated to a progressive fund that supported anti-Israel groups, accused of setting up encampments at Ivy League universities, according to public documents. Donations to the Obama Foundation, set up by the former president to build a 19-acre campus including a museum, athletic facility and fruit and vegetable gardens in Chicago, totaling $2 million were instead sent on to Tides Foundation in 2022 and 2023, according to its latest available federal tax filings. The cash was earmarked to “support local organizations that are working to reduce violence in communities,” according to the nonprofit’s filings. Tides Foundation — also funded by Democratic mega-donor Geo...