Former SPLC CFO Arrested
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Former Southern Poverty Law Center employee Heidi Beirich was arrested Wednesday amid allegations that she helped oversee payments to white supremacist groups and was allegedly living with a member of one of those groups with whom she was romantically involved at the time.
Todd Blanche said, “I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described.”
A former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California on charges that she oversaw secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist groups, one of whom she was allegedly living with and had a romantic relationship with at the time.
The woman, Heidi Beirich, previously ran the SPLC’s project tracking hate groups in the US and allegedly “oversaw payments of donors’ money” to people inside of these hate groups, according to the indictment. Prosecutors say she shared a bank account with one of those sources, which included funds from the SPLC’s payments.
“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference Wednesday. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the US attorneys and the agents working the case will can keep on working it even after the initial indictment.”
Beirich’s lawyer confirmed that she was charged.
Beirich’s lawyer, Michael Proctor, confirmed that she was charged in the government’s existing case against the SPLC in Montgomery, Alabama.
Court records indicate Beirich is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
“A free and fair society does not use the justice system to silence its political opponents,” Proctor said.
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