A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, charging the organization with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. At the center of the indictment: a decades-long secret program in which SPLC funneled more than $3 million in donor money to individuals embedded within the very extremist groups the organization publicly denounced.
