Heidi Beirich arrest SPLC indictment
by Flint: Todd Blanche
Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO Heidi Beirich got arrested, and AG Todd Blanche confirmed it’s tied to a newly unsealed indictment. The feds say she was part of a scheme to pay informants inside white supremacist groups, using bank accounts opened under fake company names and making payments for reasons that weren’t accurate. Blanche: “The arrest was THIS MORNING.” “This is EXACTLY what we said would happen.”
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Poverty Law Center. Can you please speak a little bit about what you've learned as part of that investigation and if we should expect more charges? So I'm not, so yes, today my understanding is today there was an arrest made and there is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC. I don't have any comments about whether, we've said from the beginning, everybody, not just me, but anybody who's talked about this case, It's like virtually every criminal case, the fact that an indictment is returned doesn't end the investigation. It's just part of the investigation in most cases, which is certainly true in this case. I think as alleged in the indictment, this individual participated in the scheme, as alleged. I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and completely fictitious companies' names and make payments that to individuals for reasons that were not um that they were not accurate as as described but i i don't have i think the the indictment was unsealed this morning i don't have or i believe it was unsealed this morning i think the arrest was this morning i don't have anything to say beyond that except to say that this is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this which is that um our investigators and the u.s attorneys and the and the agents work in the case will can keep on working it even after the initial indictment Thank you.
