{"id":42544,"date":"2026-08-13T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42544"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:14:23","slug":"ex-southern-poverty-law-center-employee-employee-arrested-for-paying-informants-inside-white-supremacy-groups-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=42544","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center Employee Employee Arrested for Paying Informants Inside White Supremacy Groups: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5696530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5696530\" class=\"wp-image-5696530 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/01\/blanche-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche looks on during an announcement at Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2025.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5696530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Chung\/POLITICO via AP Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A former employee from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/southern-poverty-law-center\/\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> was arrested and charged for allegedly paying informants within white supremacist groups.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wednesday report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/12\/politics\/exclusive-splc-fraud-cfo-charges?Date=20260812&amp;Profile=CNN&amp;utm_content=1786556809&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bluesky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, <strong>Heidi Beirich<\/strong> has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>One of those informants was even romantically involved with Beirich. The report read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The woman, Heidi Beirich, previously ran the SPLC&#8217;s project tracking hate groups in the US and allegedly &#8220;oversaw payments of donors&#8217; money&#8221; to people inside of these hate groups, according to the indictment. Prosecutors say she shared a bank account with one of those sources, which included funds from the SPLC&#8217;s payments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies&#8217; names and make payments to individuals for reasons that that were not accurate as described,&#8221; Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference Wednesday. &#8220;This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the U.S. attorneys and the agents working the case will can keep on working it even after the initial indictment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted by CNN, the charged against Beirich were part of a larger DOJ case on the SPLC over similar alleged payments. The organization has accused the DOJ of &#8220;mischaracterizing&#8221; its informant program used to &#8220;gather intelligence on hate groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/ex-southern-poverty-law-center-employee-employee-arrested-for-paying-informants-inside-white-supremacy-groups-report\/\">Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center Employee Employee Arrested for Paying Informants Inside White Supremacy Groups: Report<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Chung\/POLITICO via AP Images A former employee from the Southern Poverty Law Center was arrested and charged for allegedly paying informants within white supremacist groups. According to a Wednesday report from CNN, Heidi Beirich has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/01\/blanche-4.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}