Former SPLC employee Heidi Beirich faces federal fraud charges over alleged informant payouts and stolen documents as the DOJ expands its pr
Phil Williams at Confront The Hate:
A former Southern Poverty Law Center employee and persistent Trump critic has been arrested as a result of a superseding indictment in the Department of Justice’s on-going prosecution of the civil rights organization. Heidi Beirich, 59, is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and submitting false statements to a federally insured bank. As with the original indictment, the charges focus on an undercover informant program that the SPLC previously operated to infiltrate various hate groups.
At the core of the DOJ’s case is the controversial allegation that SPLC donors were defrauded when their money was used to pay informants in the upper echelons of the groups the SPLC was supposedly working to dismantle. “We’ve said from the beginning [in] virtually every criminal case, the fact that an indictment is returned doesn’t end the investigation,” U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters during a morning news conference. “It’s just part of the investigation in most cases, which is certainly true in this case.” Although Blanche mistakenly referred to Beirich as SPLC’s former chief financial officer, her LinkedIn profile lists her actual role as director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project until her departure seven years ago. Among her duties, she was involved in writing investigative profiles of various extremist groups for the SPLC’s “Hatewatch” publications.
More vindicative prosecutions from the anti-American and anti-free speech Trump Regime: former SPLC employee Heidi Beirich was arrested over bogus “criminal fraud” charges.
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