On April 21, 2026, a Grand Jury indicted the SPLC on six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering.  

Records obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice found that the SPLC concocted a scheme to create fake bank accounts so that the organization could hide the fact that it was paying the very white supremacist groups it claimed to be fighting.  

According to court documents, the SPLC paid:

• More than 1 million to the neo-Nazi National Alliance affiliates. 
• More than 300,000 to neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations. 
• More than 270,000 to fund the Charlottesville white supremacy riot. 
• More than 140,000 directly to the National Alliance chairman. 
• More than 73,000 directly to Ku Klux Klan members. 
• More than 19,000 to a felon and leader of the white supremacist group American Front. 

The SPLC even paid the leaders of the white supremacist group behind the Charlottesville massacre to organize and bus racists to that event! Then, after the massacre, the SPLC fundraised off of it, raising millions off the tragedy the SPLC helped engineer!

Shortly after the Grand Jury indictment was released on April 21, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on social media that the SPLC “engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public.”

“They lied to their donors,” says Director Patel, “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.” 

In the SPLC’s insane case against Liberty Counsel, Miller v. Jenkins, the SPLC continues to falsely claim Liberty Counsel assisted a woman in kidnapping her child. The charge is ridiculous and has been thoroughly debunked in court.

But the SPLC is using it’s nearly 1-billion-dollar endowment of ill-gotten gains to try to sue LIBERTY COUNSEL out of business.

• We have already invested 11,000 hours, 25 depositions, and 186,000+ pages of evidence defending the truth. 
• The federal court ruled fully in our favor — yet the SPLC appealed anyway. 
• The SPLC has publicly declared its goal is to “destroy” groups like ours. 
• Their client is demanding 2 BILLION DOLLARS from Liberty Counsel for a crime that never happened! 

Regardless of the indictments, our fight to clear our name against the SPLC’s smears continues. Preparing for this appeal and the upcoming oral arguments will require hundreds more hours of legal work.

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Liberty Counsel

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SOURCES:

Chalfant, Joseph. “Leftist SPLC Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud.” Townhall, April 21, 2026. Townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/04/21/leftist-splc-indicted-on-11-counts-of-fraud-n2674851.

FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash). “FBI Announces SPLC Indictment.” X (formerly Twitter), April 21, 2026, 5:58 p.m. X.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2046710156096864368.

“Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering.” Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, April 21, 2026. Justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and.