Liberal Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings, feds say in stunning court documents

The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday. - Priscilla DeGregory

• Some of that money, according to the indictment, was used to recruit new members and make the Klan’s notorious white robes.
• Among the expenses the two were reimbursed for, per the court documents, were all the costs “incurred for cross-burning events, to include the wood and fuel used.”
• Expenses for “extremist group rallies,” establishing new chapters of the groups, publishing “racist paraphernalia” and other “extremist literature” were also covered...