{"id":811896,"date":"2026-08-13T04:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811896\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:56:08","slug":"ex-southern-poverty-law-center-official-indicted-over-payments-to-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811896\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center official indicted over payments to informants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QDNZ6UXBCRHVDMD4KWLND22FOQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A former top official at the Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Wednesday on fraud charges, an escalation of the Justice Department\u2019s ongoing case against the storied civil rights organization.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DUGTARC7KZASBME44YBDYHKAVI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Federal prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/21\/splc-southern-poverty-justice-department-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/21\/splc-southern-poverty-justice-department-investigation\/\">accused Heidi Beirich<\/a>, an expert on political extremism and a former director of the nonprofit\u2019s intelligence project, of overseeing payments to informants working undercover in a variety of hate groups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former top official at the Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Wednesday on fraud charges, an escalation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-811896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}