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Re: SPLC's high-profile donors like Clooney, Soros stay mum after nonprofit indicted over alleged $3M hate group informant scheme

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Big-name donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center, including George
Clooney and George Soros, have stayed silent amid allegations that the
nonprofit funneled more than $3 million to the hate groups it claims to
fight. 

The SPLC was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering on
Wednesday for allegedly bankrolling at least eight leaders and members
of extremist groups — all behind the backs of its deep-pocketed
benefactors. 

The foundations of Clooney and Soros, along with MGM Resorts and other
high-profile backers, haven’t spoken up about the Justice Department
indictment. 

They’ve also ignored The Post’s requests for comment about the SPLC’s
indictment, in which federal prosecutors alleged that insiders from the
extremist groups paid by the nonprofit helped spread hateful content. 

Many of the SPLC’s donors, including Clooney’s foundation, former Apple
CEO Tim Cook and JPMorgan, pledged to the organization after clashes at
a 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Virginia that
resulted in the death of one protester. 

Little did those donors know that the SPLC was allegedly sending money
to one of the people involved in organizing the “Unite the Right” rally,
according to the DOJ indictment. 

Other notable SPLC donors include Soros’ Open Society Foundations,
OpenAI and Chick-fil-A. 

Chick-fil-A — which took heat from Christian groups for a 2017 donation
to the SPLC — addressed the scandal to The Post. 

“Our mention in this is based on a one-time $2,500 donation made nearly
10 years ago at the request of a former advisory board member. This
isn’t an organization that Chick-fil-A is involved with or supports in
any capacity,” the company told The Post. 

The DOJ claims the organization misled both donors and law enforcement
by paying undercover “F” agents ostensibly tasked with gathering
intelligence and conducting espionage within groups including the Ku
Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the Nationalist Socialist Party of
American Nazis. 

But the sheer amount of money spent on these efforts has caused civil
rights activists to doubt the group’s motives. 

For example, the group paid about $270,000 over an eight-year period to
a “Unite the Right” leader directly involved in organizing the notorious
Charlottesville rally, at which attendees shouted racist slogans and
waved Nazi flags. 

Critics include activists like Bob Woodson, an 89-year-old civil rights
champion who faced jail time for his advocacy in the Jim Crow South, and
Curtis T. Hill Jr., the former attorney general for Indiana who now
serves as an ambassador for Project 21’s black leadership network. 

Hill told The Post that the SPLC should “be taken down brick by brick”
if the DOJ’s allegations are true. 

“The motive is raising money for self-perpetuation. Perpetrating hate
costs money. If these allegations are proven true, they’re raising money
to further their own existence,” he said. 

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/splcs-donors-like-clooney-soros-sta
y-mum-after-its-indicted-over-alleged-3m-hate-group-informant-scheme/ 

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Re: SPLC's high-profile donors like Clooney, Soros stay mum after nonprofit indicted over alleged $3M hate group informant scheme Greg Rabanus <greg.rabanus@bsky.app> - 2026-04-25 10:20 +0200

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