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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

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Re: Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

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They were paying KKK members and Nazis. The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries.

>The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries.

What about paying low level arsonists to rat out their boss?

Re: Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

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post #7
post #6

They were paying KKK members and Nazis. The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries.

>The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries. What about paying low level arsonists to rat out their boss?

Private non-profits don’t do that. Police do that.

Re: Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud, money laundering

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post #6

They were paying KKK members and Nazis. The scam was roughly the same as firemen paying arsonists to justify their salaries.

Like many NGOs/NPOs they suffer from perverse incentives: reduce or solve the problem and their reason to be disappears and the directors and higher staff no longer have well paying cushy jobs. You see this in NGOs "helping" addicts, homeless, etc. On paper they have a well meaning goal, in practice the goal is mostly for show and most of the money goes to paying salaries.
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