This posting has been updated to include an link to with Washington Times coverage of the story, mention of Father Georges de Laire’s reliance on Heidi Beirich’s reporting on SBC, and mention of Damian Fisher’s reliance on the same in his yellow journalism.
(Cristina Laila/Gateway Pundit) — Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) CFO Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and hit with fraud charges on Wednesday.
Beirich oversaw the payments to the informants inside the KKK and other white supremacist groups receiving money from the SPLC.
Read the newly unsealed superseding indictment here.
The Justice Department in April indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts, including wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
Read also the Washington Times coverage of this story…
As previously reported on this site,
Heidi Beirich, the SPLC operative who wrote a clumsy smear job on Saint Benedict Center and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 2007, has been named by the Post as the likely SPLC “Employee-2” who was romantically involved with a man inside a neo-Nazi organization she was investigating. See “SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account.”
Be it noted that Father Georges de Laire, the then-Vicar for Canonical Affairs of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, relied at least in part upon Beirich’s fraudulent reporting when he not less than twice cited the SPLC as a source in his campaign of vilification against Saint Benedict Center and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So, too, did the writer Damian Fisher, who cited both the SPLC and Father de Laire in his protracted smear campaign against the publishers of Catholicism.org.
The following posts on X are of interest in this story:
Following an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners: today we are announcing a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Director of Intelligence, Heidi Beirich.
As alleged, Heidi Beirich was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC and their…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 12, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has ARRESTED the former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center on FRAUD CHARGES, AG Blanche confirms
Heidi Beirich was in charge of secretly paying donor money to “White supremacist groups,” and ran SPLC’s project tracking “hate groups” in the US
BEAUTIFUL! pic.twitter.com/0BNgRxnvtB
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 12, 2026
