Far-Leftists making money hand over fist while “smearing any group which disagrees with them as a ‘hate group.’” By lumping legitimate groups together with the KKK and neo-Nazis, the Southern Poverty Law Center hopes to destroy all those who dissent from the hard-Leftist agenda.
“The Ivory Spires of the SPLC ‘Poverty Palace,’” by Jacob Grandstaff, Capital Research Center, September 11, 2017:
The Washington Free Beacon exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-appointed hate group monitor infamous for lumping mainstream conservative nonprofits alongside legitimate hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, keeps millions of dollars in multiple offshore accounts.
SPLC tax forms from 2014 reveal that in one year, the 501(c)3 nonprofit transferred nearly $5.5 million to multiple bank accounts in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. The bulk of these financial transfers occurred on March 1, 2015, in which two separate transfers were made to two accounts at the same address in Canana Bay, Cayman Islands.
Amy Sterling Casil, CEO of Pacific Human Capital, a California-based nonprofit consulting firm told the Free Beacon that she had never heard of a US-based nonprofit that deals with human rights or social services having foreign bank accounts. “It is unethical for any US-based charity to invest large sums of money overseas,” she said, adding “I know of no legitimate reason for any US-based nonprofit to put money in overseas, unregulated bank accounts.”
Charles Ortel, a former Wall Street analyst and financial adviser known for uncovering a 2009 financial scandal at General Electric also expressed surprise, noting: “It seems extremely unusual for a 501(c)(3) concentrating upon reducing poverty in the American South to have multiple bank accounts in tax haven nations.”
The SPLC pays its staff surprisingly well. In 2015, the organization spent $20 million on salaries, but only spent $61,000 on legal services. This, despite boasting of a staff of 75 lawyers for the purpose of litigating on behalf of “children’s rights, economic justice, immigrant justice, LGBT rights, and criminal justice reform.” The minimum it paid officers, directors, trustees, or key employees, in base salary in 2015 was $140,000—this in Alabama, a state where the mean salary for religious and education directors (which includes private school principals) was $40,820 in 2015. SPLC president and CEO Richard Cohen was paid $346,218 in base compensation, while SPLC founder and chief trial counsel Morris Dees earned $329,560 in compensation, and $42,000 in additional reportable non-taxable benefits.
While the SPLC began with a legitimate mission to tackle hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, it proved so successful that it effectively ran out of hate groups. Seeking a new mission (and source of funding), the group evolved into a far-left outfit intent on smearing any group which disagrees with them as a “hate group.” Because of its history, the SPLC enjoys a reputation with the mainstream media as self-styled hate group experts that it no longer deserves. After the riots in Charlottesville on August 12, CNN ran a wire story entitled: “Here are all the active hate groups where you live.” The story included a map with 917 organizations that the SPLC considers hate groups, including mainstream, conservative, pro-family organizations like Family Research Council (FRC) and the Ruth Institute….
Forty-seven individuals and groups, including CRC president Scott Walter, have recently signed an open letter to media outlets, asking them to stop using data from the “discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The attempt by SPLC to silence conservative critics on issues such as gay marriage by lumping them in with legitimate hate groups can have potentially fatal consequences. Floyd Lee Corkins II, who shot an unarmed security guard at the FRC in 2012, claimed to be on a mission to kill “as many people as possible.” He claims to have identified the FRC as “anti-gay” based on information from the SPLC’s website….
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Sounds like the Clinton Foundation. Someone should do a documentary on the SPLC like the “Clinton Cash” documentary.
Ren says
Thieves!!!
Westman says
With $20 million they only produced 917, half-questionable, entities on the “hate” list? They should run for public office in 2018 – they will fit right in.
Linde Barrera says
Who needs a Swiss bank account when you can hide your cash in a Caribbean or Bermuda bank? ??
RCCA says
Unequivocal frauds!
Judy says
Phony’s there telling Greg Gutfield at Fox they want an apology from him on TV. for what he said= the truth. Remember they caused a man to be shot.
Carlos Danger says
Thanks for unmasking these authoritarian frauds. Please keep it up and eventually other news organizations will be compelled to take notice.
rubiconcrest says
According to BBB Givewise.org the SPLC did not disclose information to them….
… CHARITY REVIEW Issued: November 2016 Expires: January 2018
Southern Poverty Law Center
Did Not Disclose
334-956-8200
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
http://www.splcenter.org
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
mortimer says
Staff of the SPLC are remarkably, even stupendously, overcompensated for what they do. So WHO ARE THEY REALLY? And what are they ACTUALLY DOING to be worth such RICH SALARIES?
Someone should be AUDITED BY IRS … pronto!
attackcat has returned says
SPLC was secretly probably a part of the DIXIE MAFIA..DEMOCRATS… which changed its political direction from racism to the policy of equality .That being what the national Democrat party wanted…BLACKS voting for Democrats forever.
Robert Byrd had even cast off his KKK robes earlier and the rest in history.
LBJ was the national leader of the Dixie mafia and he knew which way the political winds blew in the USA… he was power hungry and he got his fill.
SPLC is a fraud and a vicious fraud indeed.
michigan man says
saw thru their charade decades ago.not one penny of my hard earned money ever went to these hypocrites.20 mill in salaries versus $61000.00 in legal services equals frauds in my book.
More Ham Ed says
The most misleading name other than the “Democratic” “Party”.
(updated video link) (starts at the 20 minute mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDtFq87WP3Y&start=1215
Emanuele Ciriachi says
The machine of evil is extremely well oiled..
Lorensacho says
It might have been helpful to give credit to the SPLC for exposing the proliferation of nooses left at African American museums since the election of Donald J. Trump.
Shane says
I don’t see any icons for Twitter and Facebook on this site. What happened?
Mark says
This documentary needs to be shared as fast and widely as possible. Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to his email before it is removed from Face book and YouTube. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y
detolerable says
Fake Non-Profit
send complaints and information to IRS enforcement invetigators – there are rewards offered by the IRS for catching tax cheats.
Karen says
Sounds like a very fine money pump. If I were a donor, I would dump them immediately.
dragaozao says
Well… we can always say that is their contribution to fight poverty…
Karen says
Yes. There are no more poor lawyers. Mission accomplished!