Black Lives Matter leader accused of stealing $10M from organization, using it as ‘personal piggy bank’

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Surprisingly covered by the LA Times, what were they thinking of, but behind a pay wall:  https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-02/black-lives-matter-leader-accused-of-stealing-10-million-from-organization

 

https://www.dailypress.com/news/vp-nw-blm-leader-accused-funds-theft-20220902-vr57r34xvfdn3op257sxa62fla-story.html

 

LOS ANGELES — The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for his own personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.

Shalomyah Bowers was called out in the court filing as a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper” who syphoned contributions to the nonprofit activist group to use as his own “personal piggy bank,” according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.

“His actions have lead (sic) (Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation) into multiple investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorney generals, blazing a path of irreparable harm to BLM in less than eighteen months,” the suit claims. “While BLM leaders and movement workers were on the street risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his cushy offices devising a scheme of fraud and misrepresentation to break the implied-in-fact contract between donors and BLM.”

 

Grifters got to grift.

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What about the BLM lasses who bought multiple expensive homes the past 2-3 years?  Wonder if they were ever investigated?

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/black-lives-matter-grassroots-lawsuit-global-foundation

 

A coalition of Black Lives Matter chapters has filed a lawsuit against the BLM Global Network Foundation, a non-profit organization that grew out of the protest movement, accusing the foundation of defrauding the local activist groups.

The complaint was filed on Thursday by BLM Grassroots, an entity made up of 26 BLM chapters in the US, UK and Canada.

The local organizers allege that the foundation, which has been a clearinghouse for donations to support BLM over the years, has fundraised off the work of the chapters, but mismanaged the funds and had shut local chapters out of decision making.

The grassroots group, which includes BLM chapters in Los Angeles, Michigan, Atlanta and Boston, also alleges that the foundation, which runs blacklivesmatter.com, has locked them out of the main BLM social media accounts.

And it alleges that the foundation isn’t abiding by a plan laid out by the BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors when she resigned last year to wind down the foundation and transition resources to BLM Grassroots.

 

Hopefully the Lawyers will be the only winners and I have never said that before.

 

Maybe some mansions coming on market soon?

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2 hours ago, Boiler said:

Hopefully the Lawyers will be the only winners [...]  Maybe some mansions coming on market soon?

If both are true, then the real estate people will also win.  

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29 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Usually this is what happens when the grift runs its course.

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Wonder how many people have BLM on automatic bank withdrawal for monthly donations?

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why am i not surprised?

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All Black Lives are equal

Some are more equal than others

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Black Lives Matter Celebrates 10th Anniversary By Burning Down 10 More Black Neighborhoods

 

DETROIT, MI — Fires, looting, and violence broke out across the city last night, as the Black Lives Matter movement marked the 10-year anniversary of its inception by setting fire to 10 more predominantly black neighborhoods.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/black-lives-matter-celebrates-10th-anniversary-by-burning-down-10-more-black-neighborhoods