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Former SPLC Official Heidi Beirich Arrested on Federal Fraud Charges

Published 12 August 2026

Heidi Beirich, a former senior official at the Southern Poverty Law Center, was arrested in California on Wednesday on federal fraud charges. The arrest stems from a superseding indictment that adds her as a defendant in the Justice Department’s broader criminal case against the SPLC, a prominent civil rights nonprofit...

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