Federal prosecutors charged a former financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Aug. 11 with three felony conspiracy counts for allegedly using donor money to pay white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, and other extremist groups to commit state and federal crimes.
Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, Calif., was charged in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the new charges after they were unsealed Aug. 12 at a news conference in Washington but didn’t name Beirich at the briefing.
“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Blanche said….
DOJ Charges Former SPLC Employee Suspected of Funding White Supremacist Groups
