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Black Lives Matter leader accused of siphoning off $10 million
[Washington Examiner] The leader of the national Black Lives Matter group has been accused of stealing more than $10 million from the charity’s donors.Black Lives Matter Grassroots, a nonprofit group that represents local BLM chapters across the country, accused the BLM Global Network Foundation and its board secretary, Shalomyah Bowers, in a lawsuit Thursday of fraudulently siphoning over $10 million in "fees" to Bowers’s consulting firm. The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, says Bowers treated the BLM Global Network Foundation as his "personal piggy bank" and has acted as a "rogue administrator" and "middle man turned usurper." The BLM Global Network Foundation represents the national BLM movement and was the entity that received over $90 million in the wake of George Floyd’s police killing in the summer of 2020. Bowers is a close associate of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who resigned from the BLM Global Network Foundation in May 2021 amid scrutiny of her personal real estate purchases. The lawsuit was announced Thursday at a press conference hosted by BLM-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who accused Bowers of shutting her and other leaders out of social media accounts in March. Related: BLM Global Network Foundation: 2022-05-21 Controversial BLM co-founder doled out $8M of group's money for Canadian mansion BLM Global Network Foundation: 2022-04-26 Black Lives Matter PAC siphoned away almost ALL of its $116,000 cash reserves in the first three months of 2022 - with the largest chunk of funds going to a firm owned by a BLM board member BLM Global Network Foundation: 2021-05-28 BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors To Step Down Following DCNF Reports Of Potential Self-Dealing Related: Shalomyah Bowers: 2022-05-17 Black Lives Matter has nearly $42 million in assets: IRS documents Shalomyah Bowers: 2022-04-26 Black Lives Matter PAC siphoned away almost ALL of its $116,000 cash reserves in the first three months of 2022 - with the largest chunk of funds going to a firm owned by a BLM board member Related: Melina Abdullah: 2020-11-29 BLM 'useful idiots' already turning on Plugs Melina Abdullah: 2017-06-21 Nascent Scam Alert: Don't Bank Black? You're Funding White Supremacy, Professor Says Posted by: Besoeker 2022-09-03 |
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