Acting Attorney General Blanche and FBI Director Patel Announce Charges Against the Southern Poverty Law Center, Apr. 22, 2026
April 22, 2026 · The Justice Department · 0:27:42
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What happened
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 22, 2026, that a federal grand jury had charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the Justice Department’s description of the announcement, which links the department’s press release on the charges. The charges are recorded here as the department announced them; charges are allegations, not findings.
Why it matters
A grand jury fraud case against a prominent national advocacy organization, announced jointly by the Attorney General and the FBI Director, is a headline enforcement action of the department’s fraud program — recorded here on the department’s own published account, on the Justice & Crime hub.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard candidate: the charges announcement as stated by the Acting Attorney General and the FBI Director is a dated enforcement action. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, “Acting AG Blanche, FBI Director Patel Announce Charges Against Southern Poverty Law Center,” April 22, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the department’s published description of the upload and the upload’s metadata.
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