SPLC director allegedly used donor cash to fund secret romance with neo-Nazi informant: Indictment

A former director at the Southern Poverty Law Center and a neo-Nazi SPLC informant allegedly fell in love under the most unlikely circumstances, a damning new superseding indictment from the Justice Department against the SPLC has indicated.

Indictments

In April, the Justice Department announced that a grand jury in Alabama returned an indictment charging the SPLC — a liberal outfit whose bread and butter is smearing law-abiding conservatives as "extremists" — with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.

'Employee-2 and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts.'

The organization is accused of secretly dumping several million dollars in donated funds to individuals linked to various extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America — groups the SPLC was supposedly fighting against.

The DOJ expanded its case against the SPLC this month, filing a superseding indictment on June 2 that alleged, among other things, that the "SPLC secretly funneled approximately $4.1 million dollars in tax-exempt donor funds to a series of fictitious accounts" — such as for the fake Tech Writers group — that in turn paid so-called field sources "who were either leading or affiliated with multiple violent extremist organizations."

The field sources allegedly used SPLC donor money for various activities, including:

• attending and hosting extremist group rallies across the country;
• growing existing chapters of extremist groups;
• creating new chapters of extremist groups;
• making donations to extremist group leaders;
• purchasing materials for cross burnings as well as for Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods;
• creating racist paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies; and
• publishing extremist literature for recruitment purposes.

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SPLC CEO Bryan Fair, whose smear- and fearmongering racket has denied the allegations of wrongdoing, claimed that the field sources were "paid confidential informants" tasked with gathering "credible intelligence on extremely violent groups." He said the SPLC no longer works with such informants.

F-9 finds love

The superseding indictment alleges that in one case, at the SPLC's direction, a field source referred to only as "F-9" "infiltrated" a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance.

While reportedly funded over a 20-year period, F-9 allegedly received over $1.2 million in SPLC donors' money just between 2010 and 2023. While receiving SPLC donor funds, F-9 allegedly fundraised for the National Alliance and helped it "carry out its extremist activities."

Although a proven asset to the neo-Nazi group, F-9 apparently gave the SPLC some return on its investment.

According to the allegations, in 2014, he broke into the National Alliance's headquarters in West Virginia; stole 25 boxes of documents; transported those documents across state lines; and, with the knowledge of an SPLC employee and the help of SPLC funding, copied those documents before breaking back into the National Alliance headquarters to return the originals.

The superseding indictment identifies the SPLC employee involved in this alleged plot, "Employee-2," as "the person who would become Director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project."

The New York Post first identified “Employee-2” as former director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project Heidi Beirich. According to Beirich’s LinkedIn, as reviewed by Blaze News on June 16, she served as director of the Intelligence Project from 2012 until 2019.

Beirich, an anti-Trump liberal who now serves as the chief strategy officer at the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

Employee-2 allegedly used around $6,000 in donor money to pay a different field source, "F-39" in the superseding indictment. The Post identified this man as Randolph Dilloway, based on Beirech featuring him in a 2015 article on topic. Dilloway is an accountant whom the neo-Nazi group hired to conduct a forensic audit. The DOJ claims that F-39 was used to falsely take the fall for the burglary.

The indictment alleged further that the stolen documents served as the basis for an SPLC "Hatewatch" story, which was used to solicit more donations.

Beirich penned the lengthy March 2015 "Hatewatch" article titled "Chaos at the Compound," where she discussed drama and mismanagement behind the scenes at the National Alliance, making extensive use of internal documents that she claimed Dilloway had copied and provided to the SPLC.

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Employee-2 allegedly leaned on her field source for more than information.

Not only was Employee-2 accused of overseeing payments of donor money to F-9, but the SPLC employee was also allegedly in a romantic relationship with F-9, according to the superseding indictment.

"During this relationship, Employee-2 and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts," the indictment said. "Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000.00 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 Employee-2. This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts."

The superseding indictment further alleged that Employee-2 "then used donors' money to pay the couple's personal living expenses."

After over 20 years with the SPLC, Beirich left the organization in December 2019 — around which time she was reportedly earning $190,000 in salary and benefits.

The SPLC and National Alliance did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

William White Williams, National Alliance's 78-year-old chairman, told the Post, "I knew it was that fat, ugly hog Heidi Beirich."

In addition to confirming that the details of the indictment comport with what happened to his organization and expressing uncertainty about the identity of F-9, Williams said, "I think some of those cluckers wanted to get out of the movement, and they went to the SPLC for help. But instead of helping them, [the SPLC] said, 'Why don't you stay in and get paid?'"

Editor’s note: This article has been edited after publication to clarify the identifying information about Employee number 2 in the DOJ’s superseding indictment. It has also clarified what the indictment says about F-39.

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