2026年4月21日 美国东部时间下午2:37 / 福克斯新闻
临时首席执行官布莱恩·费尔表示，调查聚焦于该非营利组织雇佣付费线人监控暴力团体的行为
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维，福克斯新闻
南方贫困法律中心临时首席执行官布莱恩·费尔在周二的一段视频中称，美国司法部（DOJ）正在调查该组织，可能还准备提起刑事指控。
“虽然我们尚不了解全部细节，”费尔在该组织YouTube账号发布的视频中表示，“调查的焦点似乎是SPLC此前使用付费线人，针对极端暴力团体收集可靠情报的行为。”
南方贫困法律中心是一家非营利组织，近年来因被指存在政治偏见而饱受批评。去年10月，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔在该组织将“转折点美国”列为仇恨团体后，终止了与该组织的所有合作关系。
“南方贫困法律中心早已放弃民权工作，沦为了党派抹黑机器，”帕特尔在10月3日的X平台帖子中说道。
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2025年9月16日，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔抵达华盛顿特区国会山哈特参议院办公楼，出席参议院司法委员会听证会（奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社摄）
“他们所谓的‘仇恨地图’被用来诋毁主流美国人，甚至引发了暴力事件，”帕特尔当时表示，“这一可耻的记录表明他们不配与联邦调查局开展任何合作。”
费尔将帕特尔的上述声明作为SPLC正遭到特朗普政府针对性打击的证据。他还援引了众议院司法委员会宪法与有限政府小组委员会去年12月举行的一场听证会，主题为“具有党派色彩且有利可图：SPLC对联邦民权政策的影响”。
在帕特尔切断合作关系之前，SPLC曾与联邦调查局及其他联邦执法机构合作开展线人项目，费尔称这一项目正是此次调查的核心。
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“我们经常将从线人处获取的情报分享给地方和联邦执法部门，包括联邦调查局。但为了保护线人及其家人的身份与安全，我们并未向外界广泛透露我们使用线人的情况，”他说道。
2020年3月拍摄的阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市南方贫困法律中心大楼（巴里·刘易斯/InPictures via 盖蒂图片社摄）
费尔同时表示，SPLC已不再雇佣付费线人。
2025年5月，该组织发布一份关于“转折点美国”的分析报告，将其定性为仇恨团体，称其为“资金雄厚的极右翼组织，与南方贫困法律中心认定的极右翼极端分子存在关联”，并补充称其“核心策略是散布并利用白人基督教至上主义正受到移民、 LGBTQ+群体及民权活动家等恶意势力攻击的恐惧情绪”。
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9月9日，也就是“转折点美国”创始人查理·柯克遭枪击身亡的前一天，SPLC发布了一篇通讯稿，“查理·柯克秀”制片人安德鲁·科尔维特称该通讯是针对柯克的攻击。
科尔维特质疑这篇通讯是否促成了柯克遇刺。
“这些内容是否促成了刺客的行凶动机？”科尔维特在10月的X平台帖子中写道。
“我们或许永远无从得知，但极端主义宣传的漩涡无疑起到了推波助澜的作用。SPLC被可信地指控存在腐败、善款管理不善、打压工会以及掩盖高层领导层性侵犯行为等问题，同时该组织坐拥近10亿美元储备金，总部却设在民主党眼中的‘红色州’阿拉巴马州。这些都是展开调查的合理依据，应当立即启动调查，”科尔维特总结道。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系SPLC和美国司法部置评，但未立即获得回复。
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Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s under DOJ investigation
April 21, 2026 2:37pm EDT / Fox News
Interim CEO Bryan Fair says the probe focuses on the nonprofit’s use of paid informants to monitor violent groups
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
Southern Poverty Law Center’s interim CEO Bryan Fair claimed in a Tuesday video that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the organization and possibly preparing criminal charges.
“Although we don’t know all the details,” Fair said in a video posted to the organization’s YouTube account, “the focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups.”
The SPLC is a nonprofit group that has come under fire in recent years for alleged political bias. In October, FBI Director Kash Patel eliminated all ties to the organization after they labeled Turning Point USA a hate group.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” Patel said in a Oct. 3 post on X.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 16, 2025, in Washington, DC(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence,” he said at the time. “That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”
Fair pointed to that announcement as proof that the SPLC was being targeted by the Trump administration. He also cited a December hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government titled “Partisan and profitable: the SPLC’s influence on federal civil rights policy.”
Before Patel cut ties, SPLC had collaborated with the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies on their informant program, which Fair claimed was at the heart of the alleged investigation.
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“We frequently shared what we learned from informants with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI. We did not, however, share our use of informants broadly with anyone, in order to protect the identity and safety of the informants and their families,” he said.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) building seen in March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama.(Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)
Fair also said the SPLC no longer works with paid informants.
In May 2025, the group published an analysis of Turning Point USA as a hate group, calling it a “well-funded, hard-right organization with links to Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hard-right extremists,” and adding that its “primary strategy is sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.”
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On Sept. 9, one day before Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, SPLC published a newsletter that Charlie Kirk Show producer Andrew Kolvet described as an attack.
Kolvet questioned whether or not the newsletter contributed to Kirk’s death.
Charlie Kirk speaks at the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on May 19, 2025(Nordin Catic/Getty Images)
“Did these contribute to the assassin’s motive?” Kolvet wrote in an October post on X.
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“We may never know, but the swirl of extremist propaganda certainly played a role. The SPLC has been credibly accused of corruption, mishandling of donations, union-busting, and covering up of sexual assault by senior leadership, all while sitting on nearly $1 billion in reserves and being based in red Alabama. These are legitimate predicates for investigation. Those should happen immediately,” Kolvet concluded.
Fox News Digital contacted SPLC and the DOJ for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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