Southern Poverty Law Generational Wealth Center Says It's Being Investigated by Trump's DOJ; Democrat Fundraising Arm ActBlue Takes the Fifth Amendment Rather Than Answer Questions

The SPLC says the DOJ is investigating them over their use of paid infiltrators who supposedly tell them about extremists' groups plans.

That's silly. There's nothing illegal about that. Sounds like a big bag of bullshit to me.

I imagine the SPLC is putting out spin ahead of the actual news coming out. They're being investigated, I would guess, over criminal conduct, but they want to get all the lefties (and I guess all the Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Space Laser, and Tuq'r Qarlson fans) on their side before the real news drops.

The Justice Department is allegedly investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center in connection with the group's use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist organizations decades ago.

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Bryan Fair, CEO of the SPLC, said that the organization doesn't know all the details, but the Trump administration has launched an investigation, which may lead to charges. Fair said the SPLC worked with informants during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, when violence against activists was running high.

Yeah I have a feeling it's about self-enrichment and embezzlement.

Or about, say, sexually harassing/coercing female staffers and then demanding they remain silent for "The Great Cause."

At PJM, Matt Margolis says that ActBlue is "toast" and doubts they can survive taking the Fifth Amendment on almost all questions about how they raise money -- and from whom, and from where.

A damning interim staff report from the House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees paints a damning picture of widespread illegal foreign donations flowing through the platform with the full knowledge of ActBlue's leadership, followed by a massive cover-up in the hopes of preventing Congress from finding out.

Two ActBlue officials -- including former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey, who oversaw the fraud-prevention team during the 2024 election cycle -- and three former lawyers refused to answer a single substantive question from investigators. Combined, ActBlue employees invoked the Fifth Amendment at least 146 times across depositions with the three committees between July and December 2025.

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Then there's the legal and compliance team. By March 2025, every member of it was gone -- resigned, fired, or on extended leave. According to the interim report, "this mass exodus was a direct consequence of ActBlue's failure to deter illegal foreign political donations" and the CEO's prior misstatements to Congress. The report states that every member of the legal and compliance team "appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its 'knowing and willful' acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up."

Every. Single. One.

Read the whole thing.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:24 PM

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