The Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades telling America which organizations were dangerous hate groups. On Wednesday, the DOJ arrested the woman who ran that operation — Heidi Beirich, former Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project — and charged her with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering.

The irony is not subtle. Beirich is accused of secretly funneling over $4 million in donor money to members of the very extremist groups she was supposedly tracking — including, allegedly, sharing a bank account with a neo-Nazi who served as her live-in partner and received $1.2 million of that money