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On Wednesday, the Justice Department served an arrest warrant to Heidi Beirich, 59, the former director of intelligence for the Southern Poverty Law Center ( LC), a civil rights nonprofit based in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Ele também emitiu uma acusação substituta para incluir Beirich em sua prossecução contínua da LC, que a administração Trump acusou de enganar doadores. Uma acusação inicial foi feita contra o grupo em abril.
Beirich has been charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, FBI Director Kash Patel said.
But critics have questioned the Trump administration’s motivations for pursuing criminal charges against the LC, which has historically worked with the FBI to track alleged far-right hate groups.
The LC has been a frequent target of conservative critics who claim the nonprofit is politically biased.
The group’s stated mission is to fight white supremacy and create a multiracial democracy, and it has issued publications critical of conservative groups like Turning Point USA, which it characterised as a “case study of the hard right”.
O advogado de Beirich, Michael Proctor, disse que sua cliente é inocente das acusações e descreveu o caso como motivado politicamente. Ele acusou os promotores de estarem tentando punir sua cliente por seu "registro de décadas de sucesso desmantelando grupos de ódio.
The practice, according to the Justice Department, amounted to fraud.
Beirich was part of the LC’s effort “to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate”, according to Attorney General Todd Blanche.
The LC has acknowledged that it used confidential informants in the past to gather intelligence on hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America, but the group said it no longer does so.
A LC também disse que compartilhou informações obtidas de informantes com autoridades policiais locais e federais.
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Informação baseada em material público de Al Jazeera, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
