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DOJ Indicts SPLC for Payments to Unite the Right Informant
The Department of Justice has issued a grand jury indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging payments to an organization behind the 2017 Unite the Right rally. One informant received $270,000 from the center between 2015 and 2023. The case ties to events in Charlottesville where Heather Heyer was killed.
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The Department of Justice issued a grand jury indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the organization paid thousands of dollars to the group behind the 2017 Unite the Right rally to investigate it. According to the indictment, one informant who helped organize the Unite the Right rally received $270,000 in payments from the Southern Poverty Law Center between 2015 and 2023.
The Unite the Right rally occurred in Charlottesville in 2017.
Heather Heyer, aged 32, was murdered in Charlottesville in 2017 when a person drove a car into a counterprotest. President Donald Trump stated in 2017 that there were 'fine people on both sides' of the Confederate statue debate. Fox News reported that the Southern Poverty Law Center's alleged funding of the rally's organizers created perverse incentives, with payments continuing after Heyer's death.
