“Apathy is not an option.” That’s the motto at the top of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website.
The Department of Justice agrees, and they don’t think that funding hate groups is a valid option either. On Wednesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the feds had arrested the former Director of the Intelligence Project of the SPLC, Heidi Beirich, in California, and are charging her with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. (Although some outlets are saying she was CFO, that has not been confirmed.)
Advertisement
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has ARRESTED the former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center on FRAUD CHARGES, AG Blanche confirms
Heidi Beirich was in charge of secretly paying donor money to “White supremacist groups,” and ran SPLC’s project tracking “hate groups” in the US
BEAUTIFUL! pic.twitter.com/0BNgRxnvtB
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 12, 2026
Beirich previously ran the SPLC’s project tracking hate groups and allegedly funneled donor money to members of those organizations in exchange for inside information on their activities. In other words, she and the SPLC were funding hate while supposedly trying to combat it. Pretty sleazy stuff.
The DOJ alleges that between 2007 and 2023, more than $4 million was handed out to individuals associated with various violent extremist groups.
As if that weren’t bad enough, prosecutors also accuse her of sharing a bank account with one of her “informants,” allegedly her Neo Nazi live-in lover, who received a total of $1.2 million.
“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference Wednesday. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the US attorneys and the agents working the case will can keep on working it even after the initial indictment.”
Advertisement
MORE: Federal Judge Rejects SPLC’s Vindictive Prosecution Claim in Blistering Order
It Just Gets Worse for the SPLC — Top Official Accused of Funneling Big Bucks to Neo-Nazi Paramour
The new charges come in the form of a second superseding indictment that added her as an individual defendant to the ongoing federal case against the SPLC. Although she was not named in a June filing by the DOJ, many legal observers thought the “Employee-2” referenced was almost certainly her based on the facts available.
As I wrote at the time: “She looks like a real peach.”
Heidi Beirich, a former top SPLC official, has reportedly been accused of funneling $1.2 MILION to an informant in a neo-Nazi group, who is also allegedly HER LOVER. pic.twitter.com/jYIWmyal0m
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2026
The SPLC has long been accused of wielding its power to enforce its extremist social justice on society. The Alliance Defending Freedom writes:
In time, the SPLC’s infamous “hate map” was born. The SPLC realized that the more “hate” they could gin up, the more money they could raise. Eventually, their definition of hate included huge swaths of well-respected, mainstream, conservative America. In truth, the only reason SPLC considers many of these groups to be “hate groups” is that they disagree with the SPLC on hot-button cultural issues.
Advertisement
Accusing often innocent people of hate and then funding hate yourself. That’s rich, SPLC.
Karma can sometimes be… not nice.
Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly support President Trump’s law and order agenda.
Help us fight back against the Democrats and Soros-backed DAs that refuse to enforce our laws to hold criminals accountable. Join RedState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to receive 60% off your membership.