Tourists walk past the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2026.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday for allegedly using funds to secretly pay leaders of violent extremist groups to act as confidential informants without telling donors, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

The indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in Alabama, charged the civil rights group with nearly a dozen counts including bank fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.