WASHINGTON, DC- The case against the Selective Policing & Labeling Committee, aka the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) took on another bizarre turn this week when so-called “Employee-2” named in the superseding indictment was identified as Heidi Beirich, a SPLC official described as a “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, The New York Post reports.
That would be Beirich, who is accused of directing $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance, a white supremacist group; he is also allegedly her lover.
The document also describes how “Employee-2” (allegedly Beirich) wrote an article based on stolen material from National Alliance headquarters in 2014, then paying off an informant to accept blame for the robbery.
Beirich, 58, is a so-called “fascism expert” who served as director of intelligence at the Alabama-based SPLC between 2012 and 2019.
According to the indictment, Beirich was “very close” to the informant, identified only as “F-9,” who “infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance.”
“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment read.
“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account…and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].
“This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”
In addition to the foregoing, the indictment also alleges that while getting paid by the SPLC, the unnamed informant was likewise raising money for the National Alliance and helping to “carry out its extremist activities.”
The indictment also addressed a source breaking into the National Alliance’s headquarters in West Virginia in 2014 and “stole approximately 25 boxes of documents,” transported them across state lines into North Carolina, and copied them, then returned the originals.
The article composed by Beirich using the stolen materials was under the “Hatewatch” section of SPLC’s website and is still available on the website.
The indictment alleges the SPLC tried to cover up who their informant was by paying a second informant “approximately $6,000” to take responsibility for the burglary.
The Post reached out to Beirich and the SPLC, neither of whom returned requests for comment.
“I knew it was that fat, ugly hog Hedi Beirich,” National Alliance chairman William White Williams, 78, told The Post from his Tennessee home. He also confirmed that the details contained within the indictment match what happened to the group.
“I think some of these cluckers wanted to get out of the movement and they went to the SPLC for help. But instead of helping them, [the SPLC] said, ‘Why don’t you stay in and get paid?’” he said of the informants.
Beirich originally joined the SPLC in 1999 and became director of the Intelligence Project in 2012, leaving in 2019 during a huge shake-up where many top officials left amid accusations of racism and sexual harassment. The SPLC was run mainly by whites with blacks making up the lower ranks of the organization. Beirich was not publicly implicated in those scandals.
As previously reported by Law Enforcement Today, the SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. On April 21, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel accused the group of actively engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.”
Patel alleged that despite its public stance of fighting to dismantle hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $4 million to keep promoting their ideologies which gave the group a self-fulfilling means to prop up groups it was purported to fight against and use that to raise funds. Publicly released accounting shows that the nonprofit raised approximately $800 million.
Despite the National Alliance effectively ceasing to exist in 2013 and collapsing from 1,400 to around 20 or less members, the following year the SPLC started to bolster the group’s public profile, writing over ten articles about the organization.
Thus far, informant F-9 has remained unidentified. He received $1.2 million in total from the SPLC over 20 years according to the indictment.
Williams told The Post that he did not know the identity of F-9. He admitted the group was a bit paranoid and there had been some suspicions about various members who might be working against the group’s interests or might be a law enforcement informant.
Williams did identify one member, Robert DeMarais, who was the National Alliance’s business manager and someone who had access to the office where the stolen documents were taken from.
SPLC’s Hatewatch profile on DeMarais, however, is “written with a light hand,” The Post noted, saying he was “no ideologue” and was “focused on administrative matters.”
Erich Gliebe, former chairman of the National Alliance, has been suggested as a possible informant, according to an unnamed source. He was involved in a rather messy divorce from his then-wife in 2005 and the National Alliance was thrown into chaos. Neither he nor DeMarais could be reached for comment.
The Post identified Randolph Dilloway, referred to as “F-39” in the indictment, as the individual who took the fall for the National Alliance document theft. He was described as a “quirky,” nearly deaf accountant who bounced around six other so-called “hate groups” before landing at National Alliance.
It was Beirich who outed Dilloway in a 2015 article on the SPLC’s website, noting he defected with a trove of documents to the SPLC after he allegedly had a gun shoved in his face by Williams.
“For five months, Dilloway organized, examined, and in many cases copied key documents and data files among tens of thousands of pages of sales receipts, donation records, and ledgers,” she wrote.
In April, The Post unmasked other informants mentioned in the indictment, “including a one-legged Imperial Wizard in the KKK named Bradley Scott Jenkins,” who received money from SPLC while reconstituting a once-defunct KKK splinter group, as well as a Georgia mother named April Chambers, a KKK member who runs a home cleaning business.
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