Gene Rossi was quoted in a CBS News article titled “Former Federal Prosecutors See Legal Flaws in DOJ's Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center.” The article discusses the Justice Department’s indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which alleges, among other things, that two SPLC employees opened bank accounts in the names of fictitious entities to mask how it paid confidential informants.
"Those are serious allegations," said Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor. "You cannot set up phony accounts at a bank and then allegedly lie to the bank about the phony accounts."
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