{"id":2615054,"date":"2026-06-17T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-former-splc-fascism-expert-dated-neo-nazi-for-years-shared-bank-account-used-for-six-figure-payments\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:40:36","slug":"report-former-splc-fascism-expert-dated-neo-nazi-for-years-shared-bank-account-used-for-six-figure-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-former-splc-fascism-expert-dated-neo-nazi-for-years-shared-bank-account-used-for-six-figure-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former SPLC &#8216;Fascism&#8217; Expert Dated Neo-Nazi for Years, Shared Bank Account Used for Six-Figure Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-former-splc-fascism-expert-dated-neo-nazi-for-years-shared-bank-account-used-for-six-figure-payments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2615054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content appears to be a webpage section that discusses allegations against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It highlights claims from a Department of Justice indictment suggesting that the SPLC may have been involved in funneling money to hate groups, including neo-Nazi organizations, rather then dismantling extremism as they claim. An SPLC official,possibly Heidi Beirich,is accused of routing donor funds &#8211; around $1.2 million &#8211; to individuals associated with hate groups, with some evidence pointing to personal relationships and involvement in illegal activities such as money laundering and wire fraud. the article also notes the SPLC&#8217;s increased financial and public support following events like the Charlottesville rally, yet questions their credibility amid these serious allegations. the piece portrays the SPLC as an organization with a questionable record, accused of paradoxically funding and possibly perpetuating hate, while losing public trust.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The plot thickens for the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n<p>As a so<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-called \u201canti-hate advocacy group<\/a>,\u201d the SPLC has made it their mission for years to smear conservatives and right-leaning individuals and groups as racist hatemongering neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>But doesn\u2019t the SPLC pursue worthy goals as well? Isn\u2019t the country being overrun by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nebraska-revises-mascot-hand-gesture-to-avoid-ties-to-white-supremacy\/\" title=\"Nebraska Revises Mascot Hand Gesture to Avoid Ties to White Supremacy\">actual white supremacists<\/a> and Klansmen? Surely readers will remember the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally from 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia?<\/p>\n<p>According to an indictment filed against the SPLC by the Department of Justice, the SPLC was allegedly funneling money to hate groups to make gatherings like this possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/doj-says-southern-poverty-law-center-funneled-3m-white-supremacist-extremist-groups-like-kkk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported comments by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that summarized the situation well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[SPLC] was doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing \u2014 not dismantling extremism but funding it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only do these allegations include quite literally funding hate with donor money, but getting even closer to members of these organizations. In an exclusive from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/16\/us-news\/splc-employee-who-paid-neo-nazi-lover-1-2-million-unmasked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, an SPLC official was named in an indictment, alleging she helped funnel $1.2 million to an individual in the hate group National Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>This man was allegedly her lover.<\/p>\n<p>The woman in question, referred to as \u201cEmployee-2,\u201d is likely Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old \u201cfascism expert\u201d who worked as the director of intelligence for the SPLC from 2012 to 2019. She was allegedly close to an informant known as \u201cF-9\u201d who \u201cinfiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document continued, \u201cBetween 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors\u2019 money flowed from the SPLC operating account\u2026 and was ultimately deposited into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-bidens-explicit-denials-new-york-times-confirms-potus-involvement-in-family-business\/\" title=\"Despite Biden\u2019s Explicit Denials, New York Times Confirms POTUS Involvement In Family Business\">joint bank accounts<\/a> held by F-9 and [Beirich].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors\u2019 money to pay the couple\u2019s personal living expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The individual was being paid by both the SPLC to keep tabs on the National Alliance and by the group itself to spread their message.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, a source stole 25 boxes of documents from the group\u2019s headquarters in West Virginia, taking them to North Carolina to make copies before returning them.<\/p>\n<p>Beirich later wrote an article based on those sources titled \u201cChaos at the Compound.\u201d A second informant was paid to take the fall for the theft to cover for the other.<\/p>\n<p>National Alliance chairman William White Williams, a 78-year-old residing in East Tennessee, told the New York Post, \u201cI think some of those cluckers wanted to get out of the movement and they went to the SPLC for help. But instead of helping them, [the SPLC] said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you stay in and get paid?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cFascism expert\u201d was sharing a bank account with one of these extremists, seemed to be romantically involved with him, and lived with him, according to the indictment\u2019s language.<\/p>\n<p>Charges against the SPLC include money laundering, wire fraud, and bank fraud.<\/p>\n<p>A second piece from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/splc-saw-revenue-surge-after-charlottesville-rally-doj-alleges-informant-ties?msockid=3031e98ed77467320848ffd3d6146670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> noted how the SPLC raked in the donations after \u201cUnite the Right,\u201d as they amassed $133 million in net assets and public support by October 2017. That\u2019s a massive increase from the $51 million total the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell remarked, \u201cRacism is not dead, but it is on life support \u2014 kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as \u2018racists.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What quote better encapsulates the mentality of the SPLC? They were so hard-pressed to find racists, they allegedly paid for them.<\/p>\n<p>Beirich is so enthusiastic about racists and fascists, she will quite literally fall in love with them.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC did not have an immaculate record before, but they have precisely zero credibility left now.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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