...The allegations in his divorce case have floated around for years, part of a brief filed by his ex-wife Maureen, in which Dees is accused of molesting his stepdaughter. The filing also alleges he refused to give up his mistress, whom he got pregnant before allegedly paying for her abortion, and that he attempted to catch his ex-wife in a sort of cuckoldry sting. After they had agreed to see other people, Dees supposedly showed up with a Montgomery private detective during one of her liaisons with another man in Washington, DC. At the conclusion of the 1980 divorce proceedings, the judge said: ‘We are of the opinion that to [relate the conduct each party accuses the other of] would be detrimental to the best interest of the parties and in particular to their children.’ Some obscure websites opted to surface the claims regardless.
Josh Moon, an Alabama reporter, says the allegations involve some kind of sexual misconduct:
The SPLC fired Morris Dees yesterday and announced it today. Multiple sources have told me that the allegations of inappropriate conduct involve sexual harassment incidents. Multiple incidents that have come to light after an initial recent allegation.
— Josh Moon (@Josh_Moon) March 14, 2019
It remains to be seen whether Dees’s firing will cause tech giants like Google to reevaluate their relationship with the SPLC, which is part of a content moderation partner program called ‘trusted flaggers.’