Why was the Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges?

Charges alleged the center paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing payments to donorsThe Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on Tuesday on federal fraud charges, alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the payments to donors, acting attorney general Todd Blanche said.The center’s CEO Bryan Fair said the payments went to confidential informants in order to monitor threats of violence from the extremist groups – and th...