Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall praised the Trump administration’s effort to bring an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
“Yeah, really long time coming. Right?” Marshall said on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Friday. “And kudos to the acting Attorney General, along with the FBI, saw leadership from our Middle District of Alabama, US Attorney’s Office in bringing these indictments to bear.”
A federal grand jury in Montgomery dropped an 11-count indictment on the SPLC last week, accusing Alabama’s most notorious “anti-hate” nonprofit of quietly funneling more than $3 million in donor money to Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and white supremacist leaders, including the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, the Tuscaloosa-based Klan outfit that once made the SPLC famous.
Marshall, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate, said his office was a part of the investigation.
“I think this is a reflection of work that’s been done for a while. I mean, truth be told, Tony, we were involved in it, participated in helping with this investigation that goes back several years, and yet, it took the Trump administration to allow the unique resources and laws of the federal government because it gets lost,” he explained. “This is a corporate criminal indictment most states, like Alabama don’t have similar provisions able to use the wire fraud and mail fraud provisions of federal law that many states don’t have is the vehicle to bringing these allegations to light.”
The attorney general also criticized the previous administration for seemingly burying the case.
“But as I know the director of the FBI and leadership right now the Department of Justice, I know they’re not going to sit quiet and allow this to die on the vine, as we saw during the Biden administration,” he said, “because as we were bringing these issues to the attention of the Department of Justice, we found silence with Trump’s administration, we found action.”
The indictment includes six counts of wire fraud, four of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
“I mean, we’ve obviously been aware of what’s going on with the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Marshall said. “FRC has been a victim of the designation of hate groups that we’ve seen come from this organization, and sadly, we saw woke corporations embrace this designation as a way of, kind of genuflecting to the left to somehow another demonstrate that they were woke themselves. And now SPLC is coming to task and as a result of these indictments.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
