Poverty Law Center? Assets were over $328 million in 2015; Richard Cohen, president and chief executive officer of the SPLC, was given $346,218 in base compensation in 2015, its tax forms show. Cohen received $20,000 more in other reportable compensation and non-taxable benefits; and Morris Dees, SPLC’s chief trial counsel, received a salary of $329,560 in 2015 with $42,000 in additional reportable compensation and non-taxable benefits. And, as you will further read in the report below, SPLC spent only $61,000 on legal services in 2015. It’s “like a perpetual motion machine for fundraisers” Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, told the Free Beacon.
The Washington Free Beacon, Joe Schoffstall: The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its “hate group” designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show. Report is here.
