The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi : The Other McCain

Posted on | August 13, 2026 | No Comments

Grudge, you say? Why would I have a grudge against Heidi Beirich, who did so much to make me famous as a “neo-Confederate white supremacist”? Probably the SPLC has removed her bylines from the various articles she wrote about me, decades ago, when her transparent purpose was to get me fired from The Washington Times.

Dr. Beirich failed in that effort, but about a year after I left The Washington Times and had become successful as a blogger and correspondent for The American Spectator, Heidi’s SPLC work paid an unexpected dividend by helping inspire The Great LGF Blog War of 2009. Longtime readers know all about that episode, which made me a hero to many who had gotten sick of the Lizard King’s bullshit, but I digress . . .

We previously discussed the nature of Herr Doktor’s wrongdoing (“Perfection: Ex-SPLC Boss Heidi Beirich Gave Money to Her Neo-Nazi Boyfriend,” June 16), but now she’s been cuffed:

Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) chief financial officer Heidi Beirich was arrested in California and charged in the Justice Department’s case alleging that the organization secretly used donor money to pay informants inside white supremacist groups, CNN exclusively reported Wednesday.
Beirich, who previously led SPLC efforts to monitor organizations it identified as extremist or white supremacist, was charged in a superseding indictment with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering, according to CNN.
Prosecutors allege Beirich helped oversee the use of donor funds to compensate sources operating inside extremist organizations. They also allege she shared a bank account with one of those sources while the two were in a romantic relationship.
“I believe she was part of the effort to open bank accounts in completely fictitious companies’ names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a Wednesday news conference. “This is exactly what we said would happen in a case like this, which is that our investigators and the U.S. attorneys and the agents working the case will keep on working it even after the initial indictment.” . . .
Beirich’s charges stem from the Justice Department’s larger case alleging that SPLC donor money was used for payments that donors were not told about and that some of the transactions were routed through shell companies. . . .
The indictment further alleges that Beirich was romantically involved with a source who infiltrated a white supremacist organization and stole documents for the SPLC. Prosecutors say the source was paid more than $1 million by the SPLC beginning in 2007. They also allege that Beirich and the source shared a bank account containing $140,000 that came from those payments.

The indictment claims Beirich was in a romantic relationship with a Neo-Nazi informant. It says she and the informant shared a house and bank accounts, and between 2015 and 2021, they used about $140,000 “to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”

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— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) August 12, 2026

One of two things will happen here: Beirich will accept a plea bargain, or else she’ll plead not guilty and go to trial . . . in Alabama. See, she was living out in California, but the feds brought the case in Alabama, which means Beirich would have to face a jury in Alabama, a state that went 65% for Donald Trump. Which is to say, she’d be wise to accept whatever plea deal the feds might offer. Either way, she’ll be a convicted felon.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . .

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