Overview
- Beirich waived her right to appear and her attorneys entered not-guilty pleas to all 14 felony counts during a virtual arraignment on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
- The second superseding indictment charges her with conspiracies to commit wire fraud, to submit false statements to a bank, and to commit concealment money laundering.
- Prosecutors allege Beirich arranged roughly $1.2 million in payments to an informant identified as “F-9,” and that about $140,000 from those payments was deposited into joint bank accounts she shared with F-9 between 2015 and 2021.
- The indictment also alleges F-9 broke into the neo‑Nazi National Alliance’s headquarters in 2015 and that another informant was paid $6,000 to falsely accept responsibility for the burglary.
- A trial was set for Oct. 5 but both sides said the date will likely be delayed because of voluminous evidence, and the case raises broader questions about donor disclosure, how watchdog groups use confidential sources, and possible further legal developments.