REPORT: SPLC Official Arrested For Allegedly Funneling Money To Lover’s Neo-Nazi Group

The former chief financial officer for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was arrested in California after allegedly overseeing payments to informants embedded in White supremacist groups, according to CNN.

Heidi Beirich was arrested after she allegedly “oversaw payments of donors’ money” to informants inside White supremacist groups through the SPLC’s project that tracked hate groups. (RELATED: SPLC Executive Allegedly Pushed Over $1 Million To Her Lover’s Neo-Nazi Group)

Beirich was charged with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering.

“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday.

🚨BREAKING: Former SPLC CFO Heidi Beirich has been ARRESTED on federal fraud charges over an alleged scheme involving donor-funded payments to informants inside 'white supremacist' groupspic.twitter.com/84SNXmmZrv

“This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this,” Blanche added. “Which is that our investigators and the US attorneys and the agents working the case will keep on working it even after the initial indictment.” (RELATED: DOJ Says Left Wing Activist Group Employee Dated Informant In Neo-Nazi Group)

Beirich was charged in connection with the June 2026 superseding indictment alleging a SPLC scheme to funnel money to an informant embedded in the neo-Nazi group known as National Alliance. The informant, known as “F-9,” received approximately $1.2 million from the SPLC.

Notably, informant “F-9” had an undisclosed romantic relationship with Beirich and allegedly shared a residence and bank account with her at the time.