Hosts say superseding indictment alleges Southern Poverty Law Center funded hate groups

A superseding indictment announced this week names the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, and alleges that the organization’s funds were used to support hate-group activity, hosts said.

Co-host said the filing includes specific informant references and financial allegations. "These f 31 and f 32, these are informants as the SPLC calls them," the Co-host said, and added that investigators found the SPLC "reimbursed for wood and fuel used in cross burning events." The Co-host also said the filing alleges the organization "secretly paid an individual who was taking donor money and who was convicted of cross burning." The Co-host said one informant "was taking in over 1,200,000 in donors money, who was dating an employee at SPLC while raising funds for the hate group."

Host framed the inquiry as a financial investigation. "We followed the money," the Host said, describing the decision to pursue financial evidence as a deliberate contrast with prior administrations. The Host said listeners should "look at what the grand jury said" and the money trail, asserting that the indictment shows funds "directly funding the hate groups they were supposedly going after," including payments "for wood, for cross burnings, paying for roads, paying for informants."

Both hosts characterized the indictments and related probes as early-stage. "These indictments and these investigations which we are speaking through publicly are very much in the beginning stages," the Host said, and added that investigators "are gonna continue this investigation" and that "everyone that was involved in this offensive conduct criminal conduct is going to be brought to justice."

The Host also criticized media coverage of earlier efforts to investigate the SPLC, saying the mainstream media "exploded on us" when the hosts previously pursued the organization and that the media will be upset if the evidence shows institutional wrongdoing.

No representative of the Southern Poverty Law Center spoke on the recording and no court filings were read aloud in full during the segment. The hosts described allegations from a superseding indictment and referenced a grand jury; the claims in this segment were presented by the hosts and were not adjudicated or rebutted in the excerpt.