Saint James Hartline@JamesHartline
HIGH PRIORITY NEWS ALERT: The Southern Poverty Law Center financial fraud scandal is about to get a whole lot bigger. I have uncovered massive violations of Federal election laws and IRS violations involving the 501c3 non-profit charity SPLC and their 501c4 SPLC Action Fund and their other PACs New Southern Leaders PAC and New Southern Majority IE PAC. The 501c3 non-profit SPLC is running all of their entities, including their 501c4 political action committees, as one big honey pot in which the 501c3 non-profit SPLC has transferred millions of dollars in cash from their 501c3 to their PACs to spend the money on political campaigning to get Democrats elected. This is an absolute violation of Federal law under the FEC and the IRS.
501c3 non-profit charities like the Southern Poverty Law Center are forbidden by Federal law from spending their revenue on political campaigns or elections. Often charitable organizations will set up separate 501c4 political action committees (PACs) to engage in political activities that the charity is forbidden from engaging in. 501c3 non-profit charities can transfer funds to a 501c4 for lobbying purposes, but they cannot transfer funds for political purposes or candidate endorsements.
In Screenshot 1, a May 5, 2021 warning letter from the FEC to the SPLC Action Fund indicates the SPLC Action Fund failed to file any mandated reports for contributions the PAC received at the same time the SPLC Action Fund spent $1,078,842 in support of the Democrat senatorial campaigns of Jon Ossoff, Raphael Wanock and Cal Cunningham. At no time has the SPLC Action Fund ever reported any individual contributions to the PAC despite spending vast amounts of money to get Democrat candidates elected.
Screenshot 2 shows an 8879-TE IRS filing from the SPLC Action Fund website that does not align with other IRS 990 filings or the FEC filings. In that 8879-TE IRS filing from 2023 it shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center transferred $3,375,000 in cash to the SPLC Action Fund. That same filing also shows another $784,000 in payments received from the SPLC.
On the one hand, the SPLC Action Fund states on its IRS filings that it is not defined as a political organization, but in the same filings it states it supports (political) candidates who align with the EXEMPT purpose the SPLC Action Fund.
Screenshot 3 shows a portion of the massive amount of money that the SPLC Action Fund has spent to get Democrats elected to Congress. It also shows the SPLC Action Fund reported no contributions received — despite the fact that the SPLC Action Fund continues to expend large amounts of money and resources to get Democrats elected to Congress and to offices in local state and community races in a number of different states. At no time, has the SPLC Action Fund ever reported receiving any individual contributions to the FEC.
Screenshot 4 shows the huge amount of cash the SPLC Action Fund has recently transferred to the other SPLC political action commttees in the state of Alabama.
Screenshot 4 also shows the SPLC Action Fund website maintains an extensive displayed list of the Democrat candidates the PAC has endorsed for congress and state, county and local races in multiple states.
It must be presumed that all of the money the SPLC Action Fund is spending to get Democrats elected is money that has been transferred to the PAC from the 501c3 non-profit charity Southern Poverty Law Center. This is clearly a violation of Federal election laws and IRS regulations, and it borders on money laundering.