Re: FBI: Nigger lovin' SPLC paid informants without donors knowing. Feds pay them too

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The nation’s top law enforcement officials, FBI Director Kash Patel and 
acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a slew of criminal charges 
against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit research and advocacy 
organization that has worked for decades to investigate, report on and 
combat White supremacist, neo-Nazi and other hate groups.

The charges allege the SPLC’s use of paid informants defrauded donors to 
the organization because the donors were not aware their money would be 
used for that purpose. According to prosecutors, informants were paid 
large sums of money to infiltrate some of the nation’s most infamous and 
dangerous extremist groups. This tactic, Blanche said at a news 
conference, “was not dismantling these groups, it was instead 
manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to 
stoke racial hatred.” 

The federal indictment against the SPLC, unveiled April 21, states: 
“Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund 
the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, 
the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance.”

Paying informants to infiltrate hate groups has, however, been used by 
federal law enforcement agencies “for decades, if not longer,” said Javed 
Ali, associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of 
Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a former senior 
counterterrorism official at the FBI and the Department of Homeland 
Security. 

The FBI has long paid, and probably is still paying, confidential sources 
across the country to gather intelligence on extremist groups, including 
organizations like those named in Tuesday’s indictment, Ali said. 

“There are, I would have to imagine, every day those kinds of operations,” 
Ali said. 

‘They were doing good’
The federal indictment contends that the SPLC "explicitly sought donations 
under the auspices that donor money would be used to help ‘dismantle’ 
violent extremist groups," and "donors were not told that some of the 
donated funds were to be used by the SPLC to pay high-level leaders of 
violent extremist groups, and others, nor were donors ever told that some 
of the donated funds were used for the benefit of the violent extremist 
groups or that some of the donated funds would be used in the commission 
of state and federal crimes."

“They used the fraudulently raised money, by lying to their donor network 
- thousands of Americans - to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of 
these supposed violent extremist groups,” Patel said at the news 
conference.

The indictment alleges that informants on the SPLC payroll didn't merely 
observe and report but actively participated in the hate groups. For 
example, one informant is alleged to have helped organize and provide 
transport for the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. 
Another is alleged to have stolen documents from a white supremacist group 
that were later published by the SPLC.

The indictment describes how the SPLC for years publicized its successes - 
including by disseminating information and documents provided by paid 
confidential sources - in articles and newsletters.

Confidential sources who have been paid by the FBI have included “high-
level leaders.”

One such source, David Gletty, spent years infiltrating anti-government 
militia groups and neo-Nazi and biker gangs for the FBI. He told USA TODAY 
he received “a lot of money” from the agency for his work, which he 
described as dangerous and exhilarating. But he also got into trouble 
while working for the agency, Gletty acknowledged.

“I was getting paid $1,000 a week at the beginning, then I went up to 
$2,000 a week after I did certain crazy stuff, but there were also 
bonuses,” Gletty said. “ But I got arrested one time working undercover 
and it cost me.”  

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/22/splc-indicted-
paying-sources-fbi-pays-informants/89726011007/