FAIR Files 501 (c) (3) Complaint Against the Southern Poverty Law Center

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has filed a formal legal complaint with the Internal Revenue Service  respecting the tax exemption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the racketeering-and-political-advocacy group founded by Morris Dees, who along with chief executive Richard Cohen, has resigned from the organization amid a flurry of scandals.

FAIR writes:

SPLC went way over the line in this last election. It publicly engaged in deep, deliberate, and unlawful participation during the 2016 presidential election cycle, flagrantly violating its non-profit tax status,”  “The IRS should investigate all of these instances, and take appropriate steps to either sanction and fine the SPLC, or remove its tax-exempt status as a public charity. We are alleging – via meticulously-detailed documented evidence – that it repeatedly engaged in widespread, illegal electioneering in 2015 and 2016.”

The New York Times has used the Southern Poverty Law Center as a source more than 2,000 times.  The organization has, using extortion and fraud tactics, amassed an endowment in excess of $300 million dollars, larger than the wealth accumulated by many of the leading mafiosi.