Unite the Right

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The Department of Justice indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on federal fraud charges, accusing it of secretly paying over $3 million to white supremacist groups involved in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally to manufacture racism and stoke hatred. The civil rights organization denies the allegations of wire fraud, false statements, and money laundering. The decade-long scheme allegedly defrauded donors through paid informants posing as extremists.