A former boss of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is now in trouble for allegedly helping direct organization dollars to her neo-Nazi lover.
According to the New York Post, Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old “fascism expert” who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based nonprofit between 2012 and 2019, is being accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group.
A federal grand jury in Montgomery dropped an 11-count indictment on the SPLC in April, 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.
According to the superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is described as a “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.” The New York Post claims that Employee-2 is mostly likely Beirich, and the indictment alleges she was in a romantic relationship to the informant known only as “F-9” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.”
“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment alleges. “Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].”
The indictment against SPLC includes six counts of wire fraud, four of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. It was announced in Washington by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel.
The indictment lands atop years of conservative pressure over the SPLC’s “hate map,” which has slotted mainstream Christian ministries and parental-rights groups alongside actual Klan chapters, and followed heightened scrutiny after the 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, whose Turning Point USA the SPLC had profiled as a case study in “the hard right.”
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