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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

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“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims
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More than a dozen donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center feel that a recent Department of Justice indictment accusing the group of defrauding contributors by paying informants is farcical, the donors told The Intercept.



“It’s simultaneously infuriating and laughable that they’re charging the SPLC with funding hate groups,” said Mary Wynne Kling, an Alabama native and longtime supporter of the group. Pointing to the SPLC’s long-standing work battling extremist groups, which incl

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