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Exclusive | KKK informants to the SPLC de-hooded: One-legged Imperial Wizard ‘true believer’ and cleaning lady, who show no signs of reform

Nypost · · 1348 words · By Chadwick Moore
Decline/Persistence of Hate Groups Funding and Ethics of Anti-Hate Groups
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25 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Two of the eight ‘informants’ paid millions by the Southern Poverty Law Center can be un-hooded by The Post as a suburban mom from Georgia and a one-legged “true believer” from Alabama.”
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Multiple web search results reference an indictment alleging that the SPLC paid informants, and one result specifically mentions the payment amounts and the nature of the informants, aligning with the claim's core assertion. The evidence points to allegations regarding paid informants from the SPLC.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Margaret L. Huang is an American human rights and racial justice advocate, and former president and chief executive officer of Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an American civil rights nonprofit. S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Huang
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Morris Seligman Dees Jr. (born December 16, 1936) is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is k…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
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“One of the SPLC’s so-called informants was an Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan organization, who remained a committed racist until his death in 2023 aged 50.”
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Web search results indicate that the SPLC was accused of paying informants, and one source mentions the 'KKK Imperial Wizard' in connection with the alleged payments, corroborating the key elements of the claim across multiple search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKA) is a white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi paramilitary organization. Until the late 2000s, it was the second largest Klan gro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Klans_of_America
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is k…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Klans of America Inc. (UKA), based in Alabama, is a Ku Klux Klan organization active in the United States. Led by Robert Shelton, the UKA peaked in membership in the late 1960s and 1970s, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Klans_of_America
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“Bradley Scott Jenkins was high-up enough in the organization to call himself the leader of the “true Klan” and never displayed any signs of reform or subverting the KKK’s message — the stated aim of the SPLC’s ‘informant’ program — according to his son, Noah Jenkins.”
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The claim attributes specific information regarding Bradley Scott Jenkins' high-ranking status and lack of reform to his son, Noah Jenkins. While the evidence count suggests multiple sources, the provided evidence snippets do not contain the direct testimony or reporting from Noah Jenkins to confirm this specific narrative.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hellraiser is a British-American horror media franchise that consists of eleven films, as well as various comic books, and additional merchandise and media. Based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser_(franchise)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — EastEnders is a long-running BBC soap opera from the United Kingdom. This is a list of characters who first appeared on the programme during 2009, listed in order of their first appearance. They were …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikki Newman is a fictional character from the American CBS daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Created and introduced by William J. Bell in 1978, the role was portrayed by Erica Hope, bef…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Newman
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“Jenkins, who died an unemployed father-of-three at 50, was one of the ‘informants’ referred to as “F-unknown” in the indictment against the SPLC.”
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The claim states Jenkins was listed as an 'F-unknown' informant in an indictment against the SPLC. While the evidence references an indictment against the SPLC, the provided snippets do not contain the specific detail that Jenkins was listed as 'F-unknown' in that indictment.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC), is a conservative anti-Islam foundation founded in 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his lo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse Col…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bond
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Gordon Perry (born May 27, 1962) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard brigadier general who is the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district, servin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Perry
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“The UKA is believed to continue with a new leader.”
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Web search results mention the UKA's leadership status, noting that its leadership is believed to be weak, but none of the provided evidence confirms the existence or identity of a 'new leader' for the UKA.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKA) is a white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi paramilitary organization. Until the late 2000s, it was the second largest Klan gro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Klans_of_America
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ku Klux Klan (KKK; ), sometimes referred to as the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group. Historians widely identify it as one of the earliest terrorist gr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Klans of America Inc. (UKA), based in Alabama, is a Ku Klux Klan organization active in the United States. Led by Robert Shelton, the UKA peaked in membership in the late 1960s and 1970s, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Klans_of_America
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“He was seemingly happy to take the nonprofit’s money while revitalizing the UKA, a once-defunct Alabama-based KKK splinter group, described on the SPLC’s website as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.””
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The claim combines the idea of accepting money from a nonprofit while revitalizing the UKA with a specific SPLC description. While evidence confirms SPLC's work on Confederate symbols and the UKA's existence, the specific narrative about Jenkins accepting money *while* revitalizing the UKA and the exact quote attributed to the SPLC is not directly corroborated by the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alabama. Florida. Georgia.The fourth installment of SPLC’s Whose Heritage? report offers an evolving assessment of the threats and harms that find continued life through Confederate symbols, “Lost Cau…
https://www.splcenter.org/
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web search NEUTRAL — Identifying itself as a “nonprofit civil rights organization” committed to “fighting hate and bigotry” while “seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society,” SPLC describes the United Sta…
https://themillenniumreport.com/2017/01/southern-poverty-law…
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web search NEUTRAL — the SPLC famous. The indictment, six counts of wire fraud, four of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, was announced in Washing…
https://yellowhammernews.com/splc-indicted-by-doj-montgomery…
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“In the 60s UKA had been responsible for many racist attacks and “the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., which resulted in the deaths of four little girls in 1963.””
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Two independent web search results confirm that the Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, and that it killed four girls in 1963. The evidence cites the KKK group generally.
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web search NEUTRAL — The bombing was committed by the white supremacist terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan. Four members of a local KKK chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps loc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bom…
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web search NEUTRAL — The 16th Street Baptist Church served as a rallying point during the civil rights movement. It was declared a national historic landmark in 2006. 1963 Birmingham church bombing —.
https://www.cnn.com/us/1963-birmingham-church-bombing-fast-f…
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web search NEUTRAL — 16th Street Bombing. The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama had a strong congregation and was a center of activism for many people involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the city, inc…
https://Alchetron.com/United-Klans-of-America
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“In a 2012 interview, Jenkins claimed he was against violence.”
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The evidence provides multiple links related to 'Jenkins' (Nikko Jenkins, United States v. Jenkins), but none of the provided snippets contain a specific 2012 interview where Jenkins claimed he was against violence.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jenkins' parents never married and later filed protective orders against each other. David Magee later entered a relationship with Lori's cousin, Ida Levering; both alleged domestic violence by him. […
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikko_Jenkins
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web search NEUTRAL — The United States filed its Indictment against the Jenkinses on April 11, 2012, charging them with conspiring to kidnap Pennington in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(c), kidnapping Pennington in violati…
https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/united-states-v-jenkins-889417…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nikko Allen Jenkins (sometimes spelled Nicholas on first name; born September 16, 1986) [1] is an American spree killer convicted of committing four murders in Omaha, Nebraska, in August 2013. The mur…
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Nikko_Jenkins
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“Alabama-based SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 21.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and the search results provided no information regarding charges announced by Todd Blanche and Kash Patel on April 21 concerning wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy against the SPLC.
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“Patel charged that far from using spies to dismantle the hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $3 million to keep promoting their ideologies, so they would have something to point to and seek donors to fight against.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and the search results provided no information regarding Kash Patel's charge that the SPLC gave hate groups over $3 million to promote their ideologies.
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“The nonprofit has amassed some $800 million to do so, its charity forms show.”
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““The SPLC was … manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said at a press conference.”
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““There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money that they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement,” he told Fox News on April 21.”
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“A second person IDed in the indictment, also known an “F-unknown,” is believed to be a suburban Georgia mom named April Chambers.”
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“In 2012, Chambers, a member of the KKK along with her Exalted Cyclops hubby Harley Henson, sued the state of Georgia over their KKK group’s attempt to join the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program.”
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“While that lawsuit was ongoing, the indictment alleges Chambers was paid in excess of $3,500 by the SPLC.”
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“The KKK claimed in their lawsuit they just wanted to pick up litter on the highway and “keep the mountains beautiful” and the issue went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, before the adopt-a-highway program was shut down.”
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“Chambers — who also goes by her married name, Henson — now appears to run 1776 Cleaners, a home cleaning and handyman service in Georgia.”
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“One of his members, a motorcycle enthusiast identified as “F-27’ in the indictment, received over $300,000 from the SPLC.”
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“Another ‘informant,’ “F-30,” is described in the indictment as a National Socialist Party of America leader, “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan” who was secretly paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016 and “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.””
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“That resume matches up perfectly with the SPLC website’s Extremist File entry on National Socialist Party of America boss Paul Mullet.”
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“The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., the indictment alleges, and that the group oversaw racist online posting from its sources.”
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“Rumors continue to swirl online that ‘informant,’ “F-37” — who was paid $270,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023 and helped organize the deadly Charlottesville event — was Unite The Right head Jason Kessler.”
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“He vehemently denied to The Post he was an SPLC rat, saying he left political organizing around 2019 and has since lived a quiet life running a moving company in Virginia.”
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““Anyone could join with a link. You had all these anonymous trolls in there. No one was a serious person,” Kessler told The Post of a discussion group mentioned in the indictment.”
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