U.S. indicts former SPLC executive for her role in alleged fraud scheme
The Southern Poverty Law Center is facing 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, with prosecutors alleging it defrauded…
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Beirich was not the target of the Justice Department's original probe, which started in 2018 while Jeff Sessions was attorney general. The case was expanded to investigate possible tax charges in 2019 under Attorney General Bill Barr, with the focus shifting to the SPLC's bank accounts and its payments to informants. Heidi Beirich was arrested in California Wednesday morning and charged with several counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
Furthermore, A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC was charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment against the civil rights nonprofit, with the Justice Department accusing Heidi Beirich of overseeing payments to informants monitoring hate groups.
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Beirich was not the target of the Justice Department's original probe, which started in 2018 while Jeff Sessions was attorney general.
according to CBS News — LatestThe case was expanded to investigate possible tax charges in 2019 under Attorney General Bill Barr, with the focus shifting to the SPLC's bank accounts and its payments to informants.
according to CBS News — LatestHeidi Beirich was arrested in California Wednesday morning and charged with several counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
according to ABC News — Top StoriesA former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC was charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment against the civil rights nonprofit, with the Justice Department accusing Heidi Beirich of overseeing payments to informants monitoring hate groups.
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