The former chief financial officer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested and charged in a second superseding indictment according to an Aug. 12 press release by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The second superseding indictment charges Heidi Beirich and the SPLC with “new charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank.”
According to the release, the new indictment adds Beirich as a “defendant to the previously charged count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering and charges the SPLC with an additional count of concealment money laundering.”
Beirich is the same SPLC employee identified as having had a romantic relationship with “F-9,” a member of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance who was one of the alleged field sources paid off by the SPLC.
The SPLC indictment stated, “Beirich and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts.”
“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account, through the Tech Writers account, and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and Beirich,” per the indictment. “This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. Beirich then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”
Beirich exited employment with the SPLC in 2020. She then founded the “Global Project Against Hate and Extremism” that same year.
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