Among the eight individuals who received substantial payments from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as informants, two have been identified by The Post: a suburban mother from Georgia and a fervent Alabama resident with one leg.
One such informant was deeply entrenched within the Ku Klux Klan’s United Klans of America, serving as an Imperial Wizard. This individual, Bradley Scott Jenkins, maintained his racist ideologies until his passing in 2023 at the age of 50.
Jenkins held a significant position within the Klan, proclaiming himself as the leader of the “true Klan.” According to his son, Noah Jenkins, there were no indications that Jenkins intended to reform or undermine the KKK’s principles—a primary goal of the SPLC’s informant initiative.
“Attending rallies with him as a child never suggested to me that he was anything but a true believer,” Noah, 24, revealed to The Post about his father, who suffered the loss of his left leg due to medical issues.
Jenkins, who passed away as an unemployed father of three at 50, was identified as “F-unknown” in the SPLC’s indictment. The United Klans of America (UKA) reportedly continues operations under new leadership.
Despite accepting funds from the nonprofit, Jenkins appeared committed to reinvigorating the UKA, a revival effort of an Alabama-based KKK faction. The SPLC describes this group on its website as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.” During the 1960s, the UKA was linked to numerous racist acts, notably the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, which tragically killed four young girls in 1963.
In a 2012 interview, Jenkins claimed he was against violence.
“We are weeding out the people who only joined the Ku Klux Klan to participate in violence. If that’s what they want, they have no place here. We are a family organization,” he told Vice.com
Alabama-based SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 21.
Patel charged that far from using spies to dismantle the hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $3 million to keep promoting their ideologies, so they would have something to point to and seek donors to fight against. The nonprofit has amassed some $800 million to do so, its charity forms show.
“The SPLC was … manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said at a press conference.
“There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money that they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement,” he told Fox News on April 21.
Noah — who is not affiliated with the KKK or UKA — added he had suspicions his father could have been an informant, recalling how he one went with him to meet an FBI agent approximately 15 years ago.
“I always thought he was working with someone. I thought maybe he got into trouble and was threatened by [law enforcement] to become an informant to avoid jail or something,” he added.
He also doubted Jenkins had profited much from the SPLC. “He never had a new vehicle or anything like that. I guess he went out to eat more than my mother,” he said.
A second person IDed in the indictment, also known an “F-unknown,” is believed to be a suburban Georgia mom named April Chambers.
In 2012, Chambers, a member of the KKK along with her Exalted Cyclops hubby Harley Henson, sued the state of Georgia over their KKK group’s attempt to join the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program.
While that lawsuit was ongoing, the indictment alleges Chambers was paid in excess of $3,500 by the SPLC. It’s unclear how that money would help fight racism.
The KKK claimed in their lawsuit they just wanted to pick up litter on the highway and “keep the mountains beautiful” and the issue went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, before the adopt-a-highway program was shut down.
Chambers — who also goes by her married name, Henson — now appears to run 1776 Cleaners, a home cleaning and handyman service in Georgia. She did not respond to The Post’s request for comment and it is unknown if she is still a member of the KKK.
Since the indictment, Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and National Socialist groups ensnared in it have been throwing accusations around about who among them was making hundreds of thousands off the lefty nonprofit, which saw its annual revenue surge from $51 million to $133 million after Charlottesville.
“This was a new one. Usually, it’s feds that are the problem. The SPLC was a curveball for me,” Burt Colucci, leader of the neo-Nazi National Social Movement (NSM), told The Post on learning his group had an SPLC payee among them.
One of his members, a motorcycle enthusiast identified as “F-27’ in the indictment, received over $300,000 from the SPLC.
“It’s someone I was in Iraq with and who I know very well. This person was thrown out [of NSM] several years ago,” Colucci said, stopping short of naming him.
“He was worrying about getting extra shekels [money]. I used to fight with this individual. He was a big information collector. He wanted to see people’s driver’s licenses, social security numbers.”
Another ‘informant,’ “F-30,” is described in the indictment as a National Socialist Party of America leader, “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan” who was secretly paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016 and “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.”
That resume matches up perfectly with the SPLC website’s Extremist File entry on National Socialist Party of America boss Paul Mullet.
When reached by phone and asked if he was F30, Mullet bluntly told The Post “I’m not answering any questions right now. No Comment” before hanging up.
The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., the indictment alleges, and that the group oversaw racist online posting from its sources.
Rumors continue to swirl online that ‘informant,’ “F-37” — who was paid $270,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023 and helped organize the deadly Charlottesville event — was Unite The Right head Jason Kessler.
He vehemently denied to The Post he was an SPLC rat, saying he left political organizing around 2019 and has since lived a quiet life running a moving company in Virginia.
“People keep thinking that chat was some elite group of operators,” Kessler told The Post of a discussion group mentioned in the indictment.
“Anyone could join with a link. You had all these anonymous trolls in there. No one was a serious person.”
Many in the neo-Nazi community remain unfazed by the news.
“I’m not shocked at all about it, they’ve done that sort of thing before. They’ve been after me for years,” Jeff Schoep, the former head of the NSM who left in 2019 and has since become a reformed Nazi, preaching about the dangers of extremism, told The Post.
“[The SPLC] contacted me a number of times over the years but I wouldn’t talk to them because I didn’t trust the organization,” he said.
Those who felt they’ve been victims of SPLC smears are quietly gloating as the nonprofit heads to federal court.
“They use pain and suffering to raise money,” Gavin McInnes, founder of the pro-Trump men’s group The Proud Boys — a frequent SPLC target — told The Post.
“We’ll never know if we have a Nazi problem because they added a bunch of decoys to the mix. Are we overrun with Nazis or not?” he asked.
“This caused permanent damage to the American psyche.”
