Is the SPLC a Criminal Enterprise?

DOJ says it was stoking “hate,” not fighting it.

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The criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center and one of its most prominent former employees has entered a new stage, with yet more details about the tangle of sex, money, and fraud — all merely alleged and not proven, of course — that caught the government’s eye.

The SPLC claims to be fighting “extremists, groups, and ideologies,” and has been doing it since 1971. It’s probably best known for its interactive “hate map,” on which it tracks no fewer than 1,263 groups. There is hate in every state.

My organization has been on the map ever since the map first appeared in 2000, when there were only 599 hate groups. Hate must really be on the march.

It’s absurd, of course, for “the center,” as I will call it, to say that people it disagrees with — including groups like Moms for Liberty — are “haters,” but it’s even more absurd that anyone could have taken this unhinged group seriously.

Now, it’s facing three main charges. “Wire fraud” is the quaint, 1952 name for using interstate electronic means to con people. In this case, the center may have tricked donors into writing checks they thought were going to fight “hate,” while the center was using money to promote “hate” — to the tune of $4 million. That’s different from paying informers to spy on groups, which happens all the time.

If the feds can prove this was a criminal con, it could also get convictions on money laundering, which means routing the proceeds of a crime through different companies to hide where it came from or where it’s going. Finally, the feds have charged the center with making “false statements to a federally insured bank.”

What’s the evidence for wire fraud? The feds have some lurid accusations, but I am just repeating what’s in the indictments. It may or may not be true.

The indictments refer to a guy they call F-30. He was in the Aryan Nations and KKK and a leader of the National Socialist Party of America.

Around 2010, he was broke and wanted to change careers. He asked the center for help getting out of the movement. That seems like a strange thing to do, but there have been guys like Jeff Shoep, who got out of the Nazi business and made a career preening as a reformed “hater.” Maybe that’s what F-30 wanted.

That’s not what he got. The boys at the center told him, no, we have a better deal for you. We’ll pay you $2,500 a month, plus expenses, to stay active and really rev up the hate. So, he hosted rallies, distributed literature, recruited people, and raised money. The center made F-30 a star on its website, whooping him up to donors as a terrifying menace to democracy — and laughed all the way to the bank. I don’t know what the center said about F-30’s group — maybe you had to lynch someone to join? — but he told them to tone it down. He said if the center wanted him to recruit people, he couldn’t have them reading such gruesome stuff about him.

If there is wire fraud, this sounds like it to me. A guy wants out, the center pays him to stay in, and then makes money scaring the wits out of donors with claims that aren’t true. He got a total of $70,000. The New York Post thinks F-30 was a man named Paul Mullet, whose description perfectly matches the indictment.

When the Post contacted him, he reportedly said, “I’m not answering any questions right now. No Comment.”

Fs 31 and 32 were Kluxers who wanted to leave the Klan in 2010. F-32 had read that the center had helped a man get out and paid to have his tattoos removed, so he got in touch. The center invited them in for a talk, and offered them $1,200 a month each plus expenses to stay in. They recruited new members, and one became a Klan leader. They used money from the center to buy Klan robes for other members, and wood and fuel for cross burnings! This, too, sounds like something a jury might think was feeding the Klan, not fighting it.

Another guy, F-42, was probably Eric Gliebe, former chairman of National Alliance.

He collected more than $155,000 between 2016 and 2023, while the center highlighted him as a fearsome “hatemonger.” For decades, the center considered the National Alliance “the most dangerous and best organized neo-Nazi formation in America. Explicitly genocidal in its ideology.” Better make sure that money-maker stays in business.

A guy called F-37 apparently was never in a so-called “hate” group until he went to the center looking for a job. It paid him a total of $300,000 to infiltrate, and the feds claim he helped organize and arrange transportation for the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virgina.

Unite the Right didn’t take very long to organize, and there were a lot of people involved.

To earn $300,000, F-37 must have done a lot of other work, but whatever it was, the indictments don’t say.

Other people got SPLC money, including a guy in the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, who collected $350,000.

No details of how he spent the money. Crank-case oil? There were assorted Imperial Wizards and grand poohbahs who got SPLC cash, but far-and-away, the top money-maker was F-9, who collected $1,300,000 for more than 20 years, from about 1996 to about 2023. He’s the one who prompted this New York Post cover story: “Nazi Sex Money Scandal: Southern Poverty Law Center big charged with secretly paying racists, including her lover.”

The “big” is long-time SPLC “hate” researcher Heidi Berich, who has been following and reporting on your servant for at least 20 years.

Not only were Heidi and F-9 alleged to be “lovers,” they shared a house — the one on the right — and two joint bank accounts.

Heidi bought their love nest in 2017 for $282,000, and saw it more than double in price to $630,000 when she sold it in 2024.

During most of the time F-9 was on the payroll, he was working for and spying on the National Alliance. The feds say he once stole 25 boxes of documents from the alliance, copied them, returned them, and gave the copies to the center.

The center used the information to raise money and to dox alliance members.

F-9 appears to have been Lawrence Meyers, whom the New York Post now calls “a potato farmer” living just a short drive from Heidi’s old love nest.

He seems to have been a very thorough spy.

In the center’s latest filings, it says he has bragged to the government that he has a “houseful of documents,” including six steel file cabinets, more than a terabyte on five hard drives and two thumb drives, 1,800 pages of handwritten notes, and 37,000 photos he took. The center is deeply wounded because Mr. Myers once said spying for the SPLC was “the most honorable and important work” he ever did, but now he’s so deeply involved with the feds he is practically part of the prosecution team.

It turns out he was spying on the center, too. This is reported to be a bag full of documents he says are full of SPLC confidential board of directors’ materials.

He has even given the FBI what he calls “Intelligence Briefings,” based on his documents. This is the cover of a presentation that suggests other crimes he wants he center could be charged with: tax evasion, obstruction of justice, extortion, blackmail, and violation of the Hobbs Act, whatever that is.

This Myers guy must be a pretty savvy. He has published a book called Improvised Radio Jamming Techniques, one called Improvised Radio Detonation Techniques and another called Counterbomb. Yikes. JUST LAST TWO IMAGES No wonder the SPLC is afraid of him. It has asked the judge to order him to keep everything he has and let the SPLC look at it all.

So, if a jury finds that the center tricked and fleeced its donors by stoking hate rather than fighting it, that’ll be wire fraud. And if it’s wire fraud, it could have been bank fraud to float the loot through all these dummy companies like Fox Photography and Kelly’s Marine that the center set up to launder the money.

But there is also lying to banks.

Heidi, as well a center employee named Teenie Hutchison, were involved in tricking banks into thinking that companies like Fox Photography were real.

That could be a crime, and Heidi and the center itself are charged, though not Teenie.

Heidi and the center have pleaded not guilty, and SPLC president Ryan Haygood says the charges are pure politics. He’s angry that several donor-advised funds have stopped sending checks because of the case.

He says that has already cost the center $3 million, but he won’t be on the bread line any time soon. At the end of fiscal 2025, the center was sitting on total assets of $921,800,000 dollars. Yep, nearly a billion.

Heidi and the center are to be tried together. My guess is they will use every possible delaying tactic to push the trial into 2029 past the election, in the hope that a Democrat DOJ drops charges.

As things stand, though, the trial is set for April 19, 2027, with jury selection to begin at 10:00 a.m. in Montgomery, Alabama, before District Judge Emily C. Marks, a Trump appointee.

It should be a very jolly trial if it goes forward. Guilty verdicts could force the center to forfeit money back to donors, pay hefty fines, and go on organizational probation. Heidi — the only person charged as an individual — could be both fined and go to jail.

We’ll be following the case carefully.