Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities

[RugersGR8]

http://freebeacon.com/issues/southe...nsfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/
Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
BY: Joe Schoffstall
August 31, 2017 5:00 am

..."I've never known a US-based nonprofit dealing in human rights or social services to have any foreign bank accounts," said Amy Sterling Casil, CEO of Pacific Human Capital, a California-based nonprofit consulting firm. "My impression based on prior interactions is that they have a small, modestly paid staff, and were regarded by most in the industry as frugal and reliable. I am stunned to learn of transfers of millions to offshore bank accounts. It is a huge red flag and would have been completely unacceptable to any wealthy, responsible, experienced board member who was committed to a charitable mission who I ever worked with."

"It is unethical for any US-based charity to invest large sums of money overseas," said Casil. "I know of no legitimate reason for any US-based nonprofit to put money in overseas, unregulated bank accounts."...

 

[Dale00]

I caught some of Michael Savage's show this afternoon and he was talking about the SPLC. Very unfavorably, of course. Apparently the board of directors is quite an interesting group. He has their names listed on his website and using that fact as bait to get people to go to the website.

Foul is fair and fair is foul.

 

[Annie]

I would maintain there is no such thing as a "not-for-profit entity". "Non-profit" is a legal term, not a moral choice.

 

[mugsy]

I would maintain there is no such thing as a "not-for-profit entity". "Non-profit" is a legal term, not a moral choice.

I agree. The image that some people have is that non-profits generously forego pay and benefits in order to fund whatever. They do not, non-profit personnel can be generously, in fact to the point of scandal, paid out if the NP's funding source. All that isn't happening is that investors aren't reaping profits (ala stockholders), instead the NP is theoretically reinvesting any profit into it's stated activity. Sounds very noble (good virtue signaling) but the reality can be very different.

 

[Glocktogo]

I agree. The image that some people have is that non-profits generously forego pay and benefits in order to fund whatever. They do not, non-profit personnel can be generously, in fact to the point of scandal, paid out if the NP's funding source. All that isn't happening is that investors aren't reaping profits (ala stockholders), instead the NP is theoretically reinvesting any profit into it's stated activity. Sounds very noble (good virtue signaling) but the reality can be very different.

You mean like the NFL being a "non-profit" organization? Yeah...

 

[Frederick]

ever since the end of segregation, these organizations have become similar to the televangelists. Making **** tons of money by dividing people.

 

[Glocktogo]

Try searching SPLC's extremist, groups and ideologies databases for Antifa or prominent Antifa leader Scott Crow. The same goes for Austin Red Guard and John Brown Gun Club. Not a single word on any of them. That tells me all I need to know about SPLC.

 

[mugsy]

You mean like the NFL being a "non-profit" organization? Yeah...

The NP angle was also played to good effect by colleges during the Obama years. The evil for-profit colleges were vilified even though they often offer more flexible hours and degree plans.
I think a major argument used against them was that they falsely promised (or implied) that their programs of instruction would lead to good high-paying jobs immediately after graduation. I find it surprising, to say the least, that conventional colleges and universities would have the chutzpah to touch that argument.

 

[RugersGR8]

IMHO, SPLC being a NPO is just like Communism's being a state where "everyone is equal". BUT it's just that in both cases, there are "some" that are "more equal" than "others".

 

[Dale00]

On Wednesday, 47 leaders of conservative nonprofits sent an open letter to the media warning against using the notorious "hate map" put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The leaders denounced any news organization that would cite the SPLC's list of "extremists" and "hate groups" as if it carried moral authority. "The SPLC is an attack dog of the political left" and should be treated as such, the leaders wrote.

"To associate public interest law firms and think tanks with neo-Nazis and the KKK is unconscionable, and represents the height of irresponsible journalism," the leaders declared. "All reputable news organizations should immediately stop using the SPLC's descriptions of individuals and organizations based on its obvious political prejudices."

The letter addressed "Members of the Media" and strongly warned against the SPLC. The leaders characterized the organization as "a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a 'hate group' label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it."

Leaders from across the nonprofit spectrum signed the letter, including: L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC); Frank Gaffney, president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy; Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel; Frank Wright, president and CEO of D. James Kennedy Ministries; Brigitte Gabriel, founder and chairman of ACT for America; J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation; Jennifer Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute; and Edwin Meese III, a distinguished fellow emeritus from the Heritage Foundation.

The leaders pinned the letter to the fifth anniversary of a terrorist attack inspired by the SPLC's hate list. "On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II entered the Family Research Council offices in Washington, D.C. and shot and badly wounded its building manager, Leo Johnson, who stopped his intended killing spree," the letter explained. "According to his own statements to the FBI, Corkins intended to kill everyone in the building, and then go on to terrorize additional organizations."

As the letter noted, Corkins pled guilty to committing an act of terrorism and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. During an FBI interrogation, he said he targeted the FRC because of the SPLC "hate map."

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