Well, allegedly anyway:

A top Southern Poverty Law Center official is accused of helping funnel $1.2 million in donor money to an informant in the National Alliance white supremacist group — who was also allegedly her lover.

The Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the SPLC accusing it of funneling donor cash to hate groups they were then telling donors they were fighting. …

Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.

The indictment alleges Beirich was very close to the informant known 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 alleges.

It’s been clear for a long time that the SPLC is nothing more than an effective tool to spread anti-right propaganda by classifying even benign and mainstream people and organizations on the right as far-right hate groups. That allowed the left and MSM to refer to those groups that way, citing the SPLC as though it was some sort of objective judge. The SPLC traded on its name, among other things, which was a form of virtue-signaling: Southern Poverty Law Center.

But what we only learned fairly recently is that the SPLC was actively stirring up extremist racist groups and paying them to cause trouble, in the form of “informants” who were highly active in racist endeavors. And now we have this cozy couple, which at this point comes as no surprise.