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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) changed its website to \u201csoften\u201d criticism of a hate group that it wished to expand as it covertly funded racist movements, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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A secretly-paid SPLC informant asked the leftist nonprofit to \u201csoften the language about him on his \u2018Extremist File\u2019 webpage so that it would not scare off new members from joining his extremist organization,\u201d the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a against the nonprofit. The SPLC then allegedly edited the website, underscoring the DOJ\u2019s criminal charges in April based on the group\u2019s alleged conspiracy to support racist extremists while raking in millions of dollars in donations to advocate against them. (RELATED: Leftist Watchdog That Labeled Charlie Kirk Extremist For Years Suddenly Worried About \u2018Division\u2019 After Killing)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SPLC did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment for this story. The Alabama-based charity has denied all wrongdoing and motioned to have the case dismissed as a \u201cvindictive prosecution\u201d .<\/p>\n

The group secretly paid the unnamed white nationalist leader more than $70,000 in donor funds between 2010 and 2016, the DOJ alleged. The group first offered him money after he reached out unprompted with a plan to turn his life away from white nationalist activism, according to the filing. He allegedly held leading roles in the National Socialist Party of America and the Aryan Nations and was a Ku Klux Klan member.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, the informant \u201cused [SPLC] donors\u2019 money to, among other things, travel to rallies, host extremist rallies, donate money to leaders of other extremist organizations, recruit new members into his extremist organization, publish racist and extremist material for the purpose of recruiting new members, both inside and outside of prison, and create racist paraphernalia to sell at rallies to raise more money for his extremist organization,\u201d the filing says.<\/p>\n

The SPLC is charged with wire fraud, issuing false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering over its informant program. The organization faces forfeiture of assets linked to the alleged offenses if convicted.<\/p>\n

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