Former SPLC Official Heidi Beirich Indicted As DOJ Expands Fraud Case
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Heidi Beirich, a former Southern Poverty Law Center official, was indicted in a superseding federal indictment returned Wednesday, August 12, 2026, by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama. MS NOW The filing makes Beirich the first named individual defendant in the Trump administration's ongoing criminal case against the SPLC and expands charges against the organization. MS NOW