the splc s outright telemarketing scam published by michael olanich on march st telemarketing one month ago we gave the southern poverty law center the benefit of the doubt concerning their dubious telemarketing practices today with the release of their irs form tax report we cannot cover for their outright telemarketing scam any longer on the right is the splc s irs form for the fiscal year ending october for the fourth consecutive year splc founder morris dees who bills himself as a sound steward of the donors money has deliberately scammed tens of thousands of well meaning donors through his network of paid telemarketing rip off artists to wit for the past four years mr dees has continued his relationship with grassroots campaigns of boston mass despite the horrific hemorrhaging of donor dollars grassroots has cost the splc hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars each year for their fundraising efforts how in the world can mr dees continue to deal with a company that has blatantly siphoned donor dollars out of his coffers over the past four years these horrendous figures more than wipe out every dollar raised by his other telemarketing cronies not that that amounted to all that much checking out telefund inc of denver we see that they raised in the name of the splc in and only pocketed in fees leaving the splc or a whopping of the donation money did anyone tell the donors that telefund was pocketing three quarters of their donor dollars but that s all chump change compared to the experts at harris marketing group who raised in the name of the splc and fighting hate and only pocketed or a mere of the money donated over the phone and yet morris dees could not be happier with the results because grassroots telefund and harris all sold their information to him for mere pennies on the dollar mr dees buys solid donor leads that he can feed into his own uber efficient in house fundraising machine at profit down the road best of all it was the stupid donors who unwittingly paid to have their information sold to mr dees you really cannot beat that for stewardship dees will lose money on the deal this year but it s nothing compared to the tens of millions he stands to gain from these donors over the coming decades but think about it in mo dees paid to third party telemarketers to raise in donor dollars meaning that the telemarketers kept every last dime they solicited over the phone in the name of the splc as well as an additional out of the splc s existing donor till this is sound stewardship at dollars apiece only of the donors got screwed out of their donations a mere pittance at dollars a pop the number jumps to more than suckers and yet mo dees calls this sound stewardship justify it anyway you want but at least well meaning donors got screwed out of their money just as they have for the past four years it s time that the media and the irs investigates the criminal scamming of the southern poverty law center this is nothing less than blatant fraud selling the suckers one thing and giving them something far less source watching the watchdogs share via email or social media email this to someoneshare on facebooktweet about this on twittershare on google share on tumblrshare on vkshare on redditprint this page related articles new study splc is a fraud who s a white supremacist the splc a deadly double standard splc the quotable mr potok splc insinuates itself into department of homeland security reports morris dees southern poverty law center splc