SPLC maintained secret connections with racists groups, including the KKK

In one of the better articles at the Federalist, it's reported that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments to racist movements, including the one and only Ku Klux Klan:

A federal grand jury indicted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for allegedly making fraudulent payments to racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the charges. “Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked. This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable. No entity is above the law.”

According to a Justice Department press release, the SPLC — which has often put targets on the backs of nonviolent conservative organizations by falsely labeling them as “hate groups” — has been charged with 11 counts of “wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.” Per the presser, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division “filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme.”

The agency noted that the indictment returned by the Alabama grand jury detailed how the SPLC reportedly began a “covert network” in the 1980s comprised of individuals “who were either associated with violent and extremist groups … or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction.” The SPLC, however, allegedly did not inform its donors that “some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.”

What we have here is a classic case of a corrupt source accusing everyone else they see fit of racism, yet they see nothing wrong with being racist themselves. It could also be described as a case of them saying, "it's everyone else's fault but theirs". Now, much like CAIR, the SPLC's credibility has hopefully been destroyed, and we have to hope donors will reevalute what they think of conservative groups who abhor violence and crime. Seriously, when will anybody who's a realist, above all, say clearly that what they're against is barbarism?