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According to the SPLCâs tax documents, the organization has $529,801,832 in its endowment, the second year it had more than half a billion dollars on hand. According to an accounting firmâs report first publicized by the Washington Free Beaconâs Joe Schoffstall, the SPLC has $570 million in assets, including the $41 million in its action fund launched just last year. Annual contributions in 2019 stood at $97 million, down from the $132 million it reported in October 2017.
What kind of civil rights nonprofit has millions of dollars in offshore accounts? According to recent reports, the scandal-plagued Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) does, and thatâs just scratching the surface of its problems.
The SPLC recently published its updated âhate mapâ plotting âhate groupsâ across America, right as Americans are fearing for their lives and livelihoods in a deadly pandemic. That map inflated the numbers not only by listing âhate groupsâ that barely exist but by defaming mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as âhate groupsâ on par with the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, former SPLC employee Bob Moser exposed the map as a âhighly profitable scam.â
According to the SPLCâs tax documents, the organization has $529,801,832 in its endowment, the second year it had more than half a billion dollars on hand. According to an accounting firmâs report first publicized by the Washington Free Beaconâs Joe Schoffstall, the SPLC has $570 million in assets, including the $41 million in its action fund launched just last year. Annual contributions in 2019 stood at $97 million, down from the $132 million it reported in October 2017.
Highly profitable, indeed.
Most astonishingly, the SPLC reported $162 million in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands, $41 million more than the group previously reported. In fact, the SPLCâs tax documents also note that the nonprofit âhas ownership in several foreign corporations. However, the centerâs ownership percentage in these corporations does not rise to the level of reporting on the Form 5471.â
If the SPLC were an impeccable civil rights organization, why would it hide money in offshore accounts? Cayman Island bank accounts are notorious as a tool for tax evasion and the fact that the SPLC has such accounts should be a red flag for anyone examining its credibility.
Then again, this organization has so many red flags, itâs hard to know where to start.
Besides the offshore accounts, the SPLC has also settled a recent defamation lawsuit for $3.375 million when it accused a Muslim reformer of being an âanti-Islamic extremist.â It faces many more defamation lawsuits, bolstered by Moserâs revelations. One of the current lawsuits has gone to the discovery process, meaning it may reveal the SPLCâs secrets.
Last year, the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees, and saw its president, Richard Cohen, resign amid a sexual harassment and racial discrimination scandal that dated back decades. Dees is a notorious philanderer and black employees complained that the SPLC felt like a âplantation.â
The SPLC may have fired Dees, but it still gave him a hefty salary for the time between November 1, 2018, and March 14, 2020. The groupâs most recent tax filing (covering November 1, 2018, to October 31, 2019) shows Dees made $373,899, with an estimated $44,264 in other forms of compensation. Cohen made $383,231, with an estimated $43,477 in other compensation. Rhonda Brownstein, who also resigned during the scandal, made $233,063, with an extra $31,116 in other compensation.
While the SPLC promised an internal investigation into its workplace culture, it has yet to release the results, more than a year later.
In 2012, a gunman targeted the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative Christian nonprofit in Washington, D.C., based on the SPLCâs âhate groupâ accusation. The man intended to shoot every person in the building and put a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich by his or her head. Thanks a brave security guard, his evil plot was foiled, but not before he shot the guard in the arm. He told the FBI that he targeted FRC using the SPLCâs map of âanti-gay groups.â
Despite all this baggage, the SPLC still enjoys tremendous influence in American culture. Left-leaning news outlets regularly cite it as a credible resource on âhate.â In 2017, CNN championed the very same âhate mapâ that inspired the FRC shooting. Last year, The New York Times, the Miami Herald, and The Palm Beach Post repeated SPLC smears against the national security nonprofit ACT for America, convincing Mar-a-Lago to cancel an ACT for America gala. Amazon Smile excludes any charity on the SPLCâs list, YouTube considers the SPLC a âtrusted flaggerâ of content, PayPal and Eventbrite have booted organizations on the list, and Discover has refused credit card processing services to accused âhate groups.â
Americans cannot trust this morally bankrupt organization. It is high time the media, Big Tech, and corporate America stop treating the SPLC as an arbiter of hate. Perhaps the IRS should get involved.
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