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Alabama Grand Jury Indicts SPLC on Fraud, Money-Laundering

4/29/2026

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A federal grand jury in Alabama’s Middle District indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21 on six wire-fraud, four bank-fraud and one money-laundering count.
The SPLC filed two motions seeking the grand-jury transcript and a retraction of statements it calls materially false by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly Fitzgerald Pate ordered the Justice Department to respond by May 5.

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A federal grand jury in Alabama’s Middle District indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21 on six wire-fraud, four bank-fraud and one money-laundering count.
The SPLC filed two motions seeking the grand-jury transcript and a retraction of statements it calls materially false by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly Fitzgerald Pate ordered the Justice Department to respond by May 5.