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 informants of white supremacist groups, Ku Klux Klan members, and other extremist organizations to commit state and federal crimes.
Heidi Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, was charged in a superseding indictment by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama. The filing was added to an existing indictment filed against the SPLC in April.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the new charges after they were unsealed on Aug. 12 but didn’t name Beirich at the briefing. …
Ex-SPLC Official Charged with Fraud Over Payments to Informants of White Supremacist Groups
