The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) including bank and wire fraud, charging the group in connection with a now-defunct program that used paid informants to monitor extremist groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the payments to donors, acting At...

At a press conference, Blanche said a federal grand jury in Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy ...