# Lawyer: Ex-SPLC official charged in broader criminal case against group

https://mins.news/en/item/20522

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-12 18:59 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://bit.ly/4wtKdLX

> A lawyer says a former official of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged. The case forms part of a broader criminal prosecution brought by the Department of Justice against the Alabama-based civil rights group. The available account does not identify the specific allegations against the former official or the organization. It places the former official within the wider DOJ case involving the group. The development adds a former senior figure to the criminal proceedings surrounding the civil rights organization.

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