Drain the Swamp · SPLC / Neo-Nazi · June 4, 2026

An SPLC Employee Allegedly Lived With a Neo-Nazi Informant for Six Years. The Indictment Says He Collected $1.2 Million — and They Shared the Money.

$1.2 million+ paid to "F-9," a National Alliance neo-Nazi affiliate, through the "Tech Writers Group" shell LLC — according to the superseding indictment in Case 2:26-cr-00139-ECM-KFP (M.D. Ala., June 2, 2026) — DOJ Superseding Indictment, June 2, 2026
$140,000 of F-9's payments allegedly used for personal and living expenses drawn through joint bank accounts shared with an unnamed SPLC employee — DOJ Superseding Indictment, June 2, 2026
6 years approximate cohabitation period — the SPLC employee and neo-Nazi informant F-9 allegedly lived together from approximately 2015 to 2021 — DOJ Superseding Indictment, June 2, 2026
$100M+/year SPLC annual fundraising at its peak — the years that coincided precisely with the alleged informant payment scheme — SPLC financial disclosures / IRS Form 990

A federal superseding indictment filed June 2, 2026 in the Middle District of Alabama contains a detail that cuts to the core of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s brand: an SPLC employee allegedly lived for approximately six years with a man who, according to the indictment, was an affiliate of the National Alliance — one of the most prominent neo-Nazi organizations in the United States. While they cohabitated, the scheme allegedly paid that man more than $1.2 millionthrough a shell entity called “Tech Writers Group,” and approximately $140,000 of those payments flowed into joint bank accounts the two shared for personal living expenses.

The informant — identified throughout the indictment only as “F-9” — is alleged to have been kept active inside the neo-Nazi movement by payments from the SPLC scheme. His SPLC-employee partner is not charged in the superseding indictment. The SPLC itself has not been convicted of any offense; the indictment sets out allegations, and the presumption of innocence applies to all defendants in pending proceedings.

What the indictment describes, however, is an irony so precise it almost defies coincidence: the organization that built a nine-figure donor base by designating hate groups allegedly housed a staffer who was, for six years, romantically partnered with a man the indictment identifies as a hate-group affiliate — while paying that man more than a million dollars to stay active. This story focuses on the F-9 relationship. For the companion story on KKK payments to F-31 and F-32, see the full indictment breakdown here.

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§ 01 / The Relationship — Six Years, Shared Accounts, a Shell LLC

According to the superseding indictment, F-9 and an unnamed SPLC employee began cohabitating at approximately 2015 and continued living together until approximately 2021 — a span of roughly six years. During that period, the indictment alleges the two maintained joint bank accounts through which personal and household expenses were paid.

The payments to F-9 were allegedly routed not to him directly but through “Tech Writers Group,” a shell limited liability company. The superseding indictment alleges that the SPLC employee had access to the Tech Writers Group accounts — meaning the person living with the neo-Nazi informant allegedly had visibility into the financial mechanism paying him.

Of the more than $1.2 million the indictment alleges was paid to F-9 through Tech Writers Group, approximately $140,000 was allegedly used for shared personal living expenses through those joint accounts. The remaining sum was distributed across other purposes the indictment does not detail in publicly available excerpts.

“The whole 'anti-hate' industry is a racket.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (@MattGaetz), X, June 2026 — responding to the F-9 superseding indictment

The SPLC employee is not identified by name in the indictment. The indictment does not allege the employee participated in the fraud directly. What it does allege is that the structure was in place — a shell LLC, joint accounts, cohabitation — and that the employee had access to the accounts through which payments flowed to a neo-Nazi affiliate.

Fox News: SPLC superseding indictment — neo-Nazi informant payments revealed

§ 02 / The National Alliance — Why the Affiliation Matters

The indictment identifies F-9 as an affiliate of the National Alliance. The National Alliance is not a marginal fringe cell. Founded in the 1970s by William Luther Pierce — author of The Turner Diaries, the book that inspired the Oklahoma City bombing — the National Alliance was, for decades, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States by membership, literature distribution, and international reach.

The SPLC has designated the National Alliance as a hate group for more than twenty years. The SPLC has published research on the National Alliance, fundraised on the threat it poses, and cited it in materials sent to hundreds of thousands of donors. The indictment’s allegation that an SPLC employee spent six years living with a National Alliance affiliate while that affiliate collected SPLC money creates a conflict that no amount of institutional distance can easily explain.

Tech Writers Group shell LLC — SPLC payment pipeline to neo-Nazi informant F-9 — The superseding indictment alleges payments to F-9 were routed through 'Tech Writers Group,' a shell LLC. The SPLC employee allegedly had account access and shared $140,000 in personal expenses with F-9 through joint accounts.

The theory of the case, as set out in the indictment, is not that the SPLC wanted to destroy the National Alliance. It is that the SPLC allegedly kept informants like F-9 active — and paid — because an active, visible hate movement was good for fundraising. A neo-Nazi affiliate who was also receiving SPLC money and living with an SPLC employee is the indictment’s most pointed example of that alleged arrangement.

Who Is F-9 — What the Indictment Says

The superseding indictment identifies F-9 only by that designation. It alleges: (1) F-9 was an affiliate of the National Alliance, one of the most prominent neo-Nazi organizations in U.S. history; (2) F-9 received more than $1.2 million through the "Tech Writers Group" shell LLC as part of the alleged SPLC scheme; (3) F-9 cohabitated with an unnamed SPLC employee from approximately 2015 to 2021; (4) personal expenses shared with the SPLC employee were funded approximately $140,000 through the scheme via joint bank accounts.

The SPLC employee named in connection with this arrangement is not charged. The indictment presents the relationship as evidence of the institutional scope of the alleged fraud — not as an allegation of independent criminal liability against the employee.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)

@MattGaetz · X

An SPLC employee was living with a neo-Nazi for SIX YEARS — sharing bank accounts, sharing rent — while the SPLC paid him $1.2 million to run a neo-Nazi group. The whole 'anti-hate' industry is a racket.

§ 03 / The $140,000 — How SPLC Money Paid Their Shared Bills

The $140,000 figure in the indictment is the most granular data point in the F-9 allegation. It is not described as a transfer to F-9 for informant work. It is described as money that passed through the joint accounts held between F-9 and the SPLC employee — accounts used for personal living expenses. Rent. Utilities. Groceries. The ordinary costs of a shared household.

The alleged mechanism: Tech Writers Group received funds from the broader SPLC scheme. Those funds flowed to F-9. F-9 and the SPLC employee held joint accounts. Some portion of that money — the indictment fixes it at approximately $140,000 — was drawn down for shared household costs, according to the indictment.

The timeline matters. The cohabitation period alleged in the indictment runs from approximately 2015 to 2021. These were SPLC’s peak fundraising years. The death of Heather Heyer at Charlottesville in August 2017 — amid a confrontation involving neo-Nazi marchers — triggered one of the largest single donation surges in SPLC history, reportedly netting the organization tens of millions of dollars in weeks. The indictment alleges that throughout these same years, a National Alliance affiliate was living with an SPLC employee and collecting SPLC money.

SPLC neo-Nazi informant relationship — superseding indictment coverage

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§ 04 / The SPLC Business Model — Hate as a Fundraising Engine

The Southern Poverty Law Center reported revenue of more than $100 million per yearat its peak and has accumulated nearly $800 million in total net assets, per its FY 2024 audited financial statements and IRS Form 990. The organization’s fundraising model depends, structurally, on the continued visibility and perceived threat of extremist groups it tracks and designates.

SPLC headquarters Montgomery Alabama — $100M fundraising model under scrutiny — The SPLC's Montgomery, Alabama headquarters. The organization raised over $100M per year during the years the indictment alleges F-9 was simultaneously cohabitating with an SPLC employee and receiving payments through the scheme.

Critics — including former SPLC staffers who spoke out in a widely-read 2019 Los Angeles Timesinvestigation — have long argued that the SPLC’s “hate group” list is curated less by ideological threat assessment than by donor acquisition value. Groups that generate mail and email fundraising returns get elevated; groups whose designation would alienate donors are quietly left off. The superseding indictment, if proven, would mean that the organization was not merely over-designating — it was allegedly paying neo-Nazi affiliates through a shell company while one of its own employees lived with the informant and shared finances.

The Structural Irony — By the Numbers

The SPLC has raised hundreds of millions of dollars specifically by warning donors about organizations like the National Alliance. Its fundraising materials have depicted neo-Nazi groups as existential threats requiring urgent financial support to monitor and expose. According to the superseding indictment, during the same years those appeals were generating nine-figure annual receipts, an SPLC employee was allegedly living with a National Alliance affiliate who was collecting over $1.2 million through an SPLC-linked shell LLC. The $140,000 that allegedly funded their shared household was, in this framing, donor money.

The Federalist

@FDRLST · X

The SPLC paid a neo-Nazi $1.2 million, and one of their own employees was living with him for six years sharing finances. Today's superseding indictment is the most extraordinary document in the history of American nonprofit fraud.

The SPLC has not issued a public statement specifically addressing the F-9 allegations in the superseding indictment as of June 4, 2026. The indictment is a charging document, not a conviction. All defendants retain the presumption of innocence.

§ 05 / F-9 in the Broader Indictment — One Piece of a Larger Scheme

F-9 is one of multiple informants named across the superseding indictment in Case 2:26-cr-00139-ECM-KFP. The broader indictment alleges a systematic pattern in which informants — some affiliated with white supremacist organizations, some with other extremist groups — were allegedly paid through shell entities to remain active inside movements the SPLC simultaneously fundraised against.

The companion story to this article addresses the KKK cross-burning payments to informants F-31 and F-32 — a separate set of allegations that do not involve the romantic and financial entanglement described here. Those allegations concern staged events rather than a personal relationship; the dynamics and dollar amounts are distinct.

What makes the F-9 allegation different — and, for institutional purposes, more damaging — is that it involves not a covert payment arrangement but a six-year domestic arrangement. The SPLC did not allegedly just fund a neo-Nazi informant. According to the indictment, one of its employees allegedly lived with that informant, shared his accounts, and shared his household costs — while the organization raised hundreds of millions of dollars from donors who believed it was fighting the movement the informant represented.

“The fake 'anti-hate' industry is OVER!”
Donald J. Trump, Truth Social, June 2026 — responding to the superseding indictment

Donald J. Trump@@realDonaldTrump

An SPLC employee was literally LIVING WITH A NEO-NAZI for 6 years while the SPLC paid him $1.2 MILLION! This is the same organization that calls everyone else a hate group! Complete and total FRAUD! The fake 'anti-hate' industry is OVER!

Paraphrased commentary · not a verbatim post

Trump on Truth Social, June 2026, responding to the SPLC superseding indictment.