SPLC Official Accused Of Routing $1.2M To Neo-Nazi-Linked Lover

A senior official at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been accused of helping direct $1.2 million in donor funds to an informant within the white supremacist group National Alliance, who was also allegedly involved in a romantic relationship with her.

A superseding indictment outlines allegations that top SPLC officials directed more than $4 million in tax-exempt funds to pay informants inside extremist organizations, including an individual identified as “Employee-2.”

“Employee-2” is “believed to be” Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old expert on fascism who led the SPLC’s Intelligence Project from 2012 to 2019, according to the New York Post,

“Employee-2” also wrote an article using materials stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and later paid an informant to accept responsibility for the burglary, per the Post. 

Beirich was reportedly “very close” to the informant known only as “F-9,” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance,” The Post reported. 

“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment reads, according to The Post. 

“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].

The indictment further alleges that, while receiving payments from the SPLC, the unnamed informant was simultaneously raising funds for the National Alliance and helping to “carry out its extremist activities,” The Post reported. 

The SPLC, which started in the 1970s as an organization to push back against racism and segregation in the South, has been paying leaders of extremist groups for decades, according to an indictment unsealed by the Justice Department. The complaint states that the SPLC secretly used millions of donor dollars to pay so-called informants affiliated with racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the New York Post reported. 

The organization is closely aligned with Democratic Party goals and talking points and has a political action fund that almost exclusively endorses Democrats in state and local elections in the South.

Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC paid a member of a white supremacist group that planned the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, The Daily Wire previously reported. The rally, which turned deadly when a man drove his car through a crowd of counter-protesters, became a launchpad for former President Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign. 

The SPLC has also engaged in a campaign to label mainstream conservatives as “extremists” and has used its influence to pressure social media companies and the federal government to censor conservative voices, The Daily Wire previously reported. 

For example, the SPLC classified The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates for ending illegal immigration, as a hate group with “ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists.”

“The SPLC creates imaginary bogeymen who they use to rake in millions of dollars from donors who were scammed by them,” FAIR said in an April statement to The Daily Wire. “Too many mainstream groups have had their reputations tarnished, banking relationships canceled, and worse.”

“The media and political classes should finally treat the SPLC as the pariah organization it is,” FAIR added.