Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center CFO Charged in Brazen Scheme to Secretly Pay $1.2M to White Supremacist Groups

A former Southern Poverty Law Center finance officer was charged Wednesday for her leading role in having the left-wing nonprofit secretly pay informants to participate in white supremacist groups.

Heidi Beirich of Palm Springs made her initial appearance Wednesday in federal court in Riverside, California, according to her attorney, Michael Proctor. CNN reported she had been arrested earlier that day.

A 26-page superseding indictment naming Beirich, who was first unmasked by The Post in June, was later filed in the Middle District of Alabama.

“There is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed at an unrelated news conference at DOJ headquarters, adding that there had been “an arrest made,” though Beirich’s attorney said she appeared voluntarily in court.

“Dr. Beirich is innocent, and this case is without merit,” her attorney, Proctor, said in a statement. “We believe the charges against her and the SPLC are politically motivated, and Dr. Beirich has been targeted in this case because of the important work she has done to combat hate groups and extremists.” (Read more from “Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center CFO Charged in Brazen Scheme to Secretly Pay $1.2M to White Supremacist Groups” HERE)