'Weak': DOJ fraud charges against SPLC use an unusual legal theory

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Justice Department announced with great fanfare a series of fraud charges against a storied civil rights group that has angered conservatives in recent years. But the unusual nature of the charges could present challenges in court, especially for a department already under fire for targeting the president's opponents and critics.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche alleged at an April 21 news conference that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a decades-old Alabama nonprofit dedicated to dismantling white supremacy, defrauded donors by using their money to pay informants within white supremacist groups.

"The SPLC was not dismantling these groups," Blanche said at the news conference. "It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred."

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"Paying informants to then dismantle the organization seems like something that people would expect to be one of the tactics that are used, so that seems like a very weak case to me," Amy Markopoulos, a former federal prosecutor who spent years in the DOJ's fraud section, told USA TODAY.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/weak-doj-fraud-charges-against-070106653.html

[maxsolomon]

1. The point is to put them through the wringer.

Make them fight in court, damage their reputation.

Story after story will fill the RW airwaves, and the MSM will have to report on the allegations, the trial, the decision, etc.