These punteros, as they’re called, have for years worked as low-level informants for the cartel.
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Kevin Sieff,
The Atlantic,
13 Aug. 2026
In April, the SPLC was charged as an organization with bank fraud and money laundering offenses related to its paying of informants to infiltrate hate groups.
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