Former SPLC Finance Chief Charged in Brazen $1.2 Million White Supremacist Payment Scheme [WATCH]

A former Southern Poverty Law Center finance officer has been charged over an alleged scheme that secretly directed donor money to informants operating inside white supremacist organizations.

Federal prosecutors say the arrangement did not merely monitor extremists, but helped finance their activities while keeping donors in the dark.

Heidi Beirich of Palm Springs appeared Wednesday in federal court in Riverside, California, according to her attorney, Michael Proctor.

CNN reported that Beirich had been arrested earlier that day, while Proctor maintained that she voluntarily appeared before the court.

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A 26 page superseding indictment naming Beirich was filed in the Middle District of Alabama.

She had previously been identified by The Post in June as the Southern Poverty Law Center official described in an earlier indictment as Employee 2.

Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the development during an unrelated Justice Department news conference.

“There is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Blanche said, while also confirming that authorities had made an arrest.

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Proctor strongly rejected the allegations and portrayed the prosecution as political retaliation.

“Dr. Beirich is innocent, and this case is without merit,” he said, adding that she had been targeted because of her work involving hate groups and extremist organizations.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Beirich stood at the center of an continuing federal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to Patel, the organization allegedly misled donors who believed their contributions were being used to dismantle violent extremist networks.

The superseding indictment accuses Beirich of helping direct about $1.2 million in donor money to an informant inside the National Alliance, a white supremacist organization.

Prosecutors further allege that Beirich and the informant, identified as F 9, were romantically involved.

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Beirich joined the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1999 and later served as director of its Intelligence Project from 2012 through 2019.

She is the first employee of the Alabama nonprofit named as a participant in the alleged wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy.

Prosecutors claim that an employee paid F 9 in 2014 to break into National Alliance headquarters and steal 25 boxes of documents.

The materials were later used for an article published on the Southern Poverty Law Center blog Hatewatch titled “Chaos at the Compound.”

The indictment alleges that the article remained online and was used to solicit additional donations from the public.

If proven, that claim would raise serious questions about whether donor funded investigations were built upon criminal conduct secretly financed by the same organization asking Americans for more money.

Federal prosecutors also allege that Beirich shared joint bank accounts and a house with F 9 during their relationship.

Over roughly two decades, the informant allegedly received more than $1.2 million drawn from Southern Poverty Law Center donor funds.

Another informant, identified as F 39, allegedly received $6,000 to falsely accept responsibility for the burglary.

The Post previously identified that person as Randolph Dilloway, a nearly deaf accountant and former National Alliance member who had belonged to several extremist groups.

The broader indictment alleges that the Southern Poverty Law Center quietly distributed $4.1 million in tax exempt donor funds to violent extremist groups between 2007 and 2023.

Prosecutors say the money moved through multiple bank accounts and sham entities designed to conceal where the cash was going.

Some of the funding allegedly covered wood and fuel used for cross burnings, the publication of racist pamphlets, extremist literature, and expenses required to maintain a network of field sources.

That is a stunning accusation against an organization that built its national brand by warning donors about those very activities.

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Blanche previously described the organization as “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”

That allegation cuts to the heart of the case, suggesting the nonprofit may have financially sustained the poison it publicly claimed to fight.

Beirich has not been convicted, and the charges remain allegations that prosecutors must prove in court.

Still, the indictment presents an ugly picture of donor money, secret informants, alleged burglary, extremist propaganda, and a left wing nonprofit whose moral posturing may now face a long overdue federal accounting.

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