Former SPLC Extremism Expert Indicted in Federal Fraud Case Over Informant Payments

A former senior official at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted in a widening federal criminal case examining the civil-rights organization’s use of donor money to pay confidential informants embedded in extremist groups. Heidi Beirich, 59, a longtime expert on far-right extremism who previously led the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, was named in an […]