Know Your Rights

SUMMARY: Hear from legal experts at the ACLU of Maine, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein (Ret.), and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.

Rensberry Publishing Co.

    RP News is a news and online publishing site/blog managed by independent journalist and former newspaper editor Steve Rensberry. The focus is primary on national, regional, and Illinois news and issues.
  We prefer truth over hearsay, facts over conspiracy theories, and reason over superstition. In the world of the internet, the unwritten social rules that guide normal everyday discourse can and do break down, making critical thinking skills and accurate information all that more important. Our goal is to help satisfy that need.
   We support traditional media practices of putting your name behind what you write, good attribution, traditional standards of 'approximating objectivity' as much as possible, and clearly differentiating between opinion pieces, straight news stories, and public news releases, with links to original sources whenever possible.
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Rensberry Publishing Co.
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What the DOJ’s SPLC Indictment Actually Says (Not the Headlines)

Summary: The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on 11 federal counts, including wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that, “unbeknownst to donors,” SPLC used more than $3 million in donor funds to pay informants embedded in extremist groups, routed those payments through fictitious entities, and made false statements to banks to keep the system running.