More disturbing revelations about emerge Southern Poverty Law Center in new indictment

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel.

A new indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reveals the lengths the group took to stoke racial divisions in the U.S., including providing funds to the Ku Klux Klan to pay for cross-burnings and costumes. 

The new revelations come in a superseding indictment, a new legal document meant to update the previous charges filed against the SPLC in April, which accused the notorious group of paying to stage "hate crimes." The new indictment provides more granular details about how the SPLC allegedly funneled money to hate groups to foment acts of racial hatred while claiming to be working to counteract such acts.

One of the most jarring allegations contained in the superseding indictment involves the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, which turned deadly and served as the basis for the "Very Fine People" hoax perpetrated by leading Democrats and many in the mainstream media. According to the new indictment, the SPLC secretly paid as much as $300,000 to an operative who organized the rally, and to transport protesters to Charlottesville to attend the rally. 

Other allegations in the indictment include paying two members of the KKK, who were actually looking for a way to leave the hate group, to help recruit new members, cover expenses for cross-burnings and to buy materials that were used to make the KKK's signature costumes consisting of hoods and white robes.  

In late April, when Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the initial indictment, he was asked by a reporter, "You're alleging that the SPLC was paying the leaders of the KKK and other groups?"

Blanche replied, "I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that."

The SLPC faces wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering charges for allegedly using money drawn from donors under the premise that it would be used to fight hate groups in the U.S. rather than fund the groups activities. Meanwhile, the SPLC has fired back denying the new charges and slamming the Justice Department for leaking the new indictment before its defense lawyers were made aware of its existence, according to CBS News. Read the full superseding indictment here.