DOJ Indicts SPLC and Comey in Separate Cases

U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center and former FBI Director James Comey as part of a spate of new prosecutions under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. A federal grand jury charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud and false statements, alleging the organization sent funds to informants and used shell companies to disguise the source of the payments.

Blanche, standing next to FBI Director Kash Patel during the announcement, alleged that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid sources to stoke racial hatred, with two posters tallying funds spent on informants within extremist groups displayed at the event.

President Trump posted on Truth Social that if the Southern Poverty Law Center allegations are true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect. The Southern Poverty Law Center stated it used its informant program to gather information about the risk of violence at Charlottesville and shared that with the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies in advance of the Unite the Right rally in 2017.

The organization also passed along material from paid informants to the FBI in other instances, including one case involving a potential white-supremacist terrorist attack in Las Vegas. In a separate case, a federal grand jury indicted James Comey for threats to harm President Trump based on a year-old Instagram post of seashells arranged to spell out 86 47.

Comey shared the photo while on vacation one year ago and stated in 2025 that he had no idea 86 could be meant as a threat, apologized, and deleted the post.

This marks the second criminal case against Comey after a previous charge was tossed out by a judge in November. Blanche revitalized the case against Comey after former Attorney General Pam Bondi's departure and ordered North Carolina prosecutors to seek an indictment, according to MS NOW. Trump pushed out Bondi last month, leading to Blanche's role as acting attorney general.

The Justice Department's recent actions extend to a court filing arguing for the construction of a White House ballroom. Following an attempted attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend, President Trump insisted on continuing construction of a Militarily Top Secret Ballroom in the place of the demolished East Wing of the White House.

The Justice Department filed a motion demanding that District Judge Richard Leon dissolve his injunction halting the White House ballroom project.

The motion stated that the plaintiffs are very bad for our Country and suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and that the ballroom will be built FREE OF CHARGE AS A GIFT TO THE COUNTRY.