It just keeps getting worse and worse for Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors.
According to the Daily Mail, a recently-released batch of tax filings illustrate how Cullors dipped into the charity’s money to pay extravagant fees to friends and family for “consulting services,” to say nothing of the private flight she chartered. The tax documents—included in a 63-page Form 990 filing, which is required for non-profit organizations to maintain their tax-exempt status—indicated that BLM paid a lavish sum of $970,000 to a company owned by Damon Turner, reportedly Cullors’ baby daddy, for producing live events and providing “creative services.”
Cullors’ brother, Paul Cullors, also received a cool $840,000 to provide “security service” for the BLM Foundation. The organization’s leader tried to justify this seemingly excessive expenditure by claiming their dogged advocacy against law enforcement agencies meant they couldn’t entrust their protection to the former police officers who usually staff security services.
Meanwhile, a consulting firm operated by Shalomyah Bowers, who happens to be BLM’s board secretary and had served at one point as the organization’s deputy executive director, reportedly received over $2 million to provide staffing, fundraising, and other “operational support” for the foundation.
It’s not the first time BLM has been scrutinized for its questionable finances. Patrisse Cullors was forced to resign from the organization last year amid accusations that she was dipping into BLM’s till for personal reasons—accusations she has vehemently denied.
Then there was the whole issue of the luxurious six-million-dollar mansion in Los Angeles that BLM acquired last year, which immediately drew the ire of activists and social justice warriors. The Studio City estate featured six bedrooms and bathrooms, a soundstage, office space, and a nice swimming pool, all of which BLM justified as a “campus for a black artists fellowship,” the Daily Mail reported.
The BLM organization—officially known as “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc.”—amassed quite a fortune for itself during the last fiscal year, which spans the period from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021. The Form 990 filings reveal that the organization accumulated $42 million in net assets, with an operating budget of $4 million.
Shalomyah Bowers, whose consulting firm received the heftiest payout from the BLM foundation, fought back against the allegations of fiscal impropriety.
“This 990 reveals that (the BLM foundation) is the largest black abolitionist nonprofit organization that has ever existed in the nation’s history,” he said. “What we’re doing has never been done before.” Bowers currently serves as one of three members on BLM’s board of directors.
“We needed to get dollars out to grassroots organizations doing the work of abolition,” he added, “doing the work that would shift the moral tide of this world towards one that does not have or believe in police, prisons, jails or violence. Our firm stepped in when Black Lives Matter had no structure and no staff. We filled the gap, when nothing else existed. But let me be crystal clear, there was no conflict of interest.”
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blm has been a racist white supremacist scam machine since it started. communist, marxist garbage. they would sell their own family if need be. They need to be LOCKED UP forever!
So will Garland of unlawful DOJ going after these BLM crooked bastrds or only go after parents who are fed up with schools bs ??
gartland and the fbi have a fetish for pta mom and dads……..depending!
Being a shakedown artist pays, and I’d bet nothing will happen because of race. I wonder how all those big donors to this fake feel!
Those as shole donors are also voters of dimwit Biden How dumb can ghey be??
The Studio City estate featured six bedrooms and bathrooms, a soundstage, office space, and a nice swimming pool, all of which BLM justified as a “campus for a black artists fellowship,” the Daily Mail reported
Blm… ghetto street hustle and shakedown of whitey…. And the self hating, guilt ridden, suckers just ponied up their cash to these scumbags.
They need to be charged and prosecuted to the maximum amount of the law . Thieves and scoundrels all . Racists and traitors !
WEll we all knew it was nothing more than a B.S. scam to begin with. They are using racism for personal profit. They are essentially trying to stong arm America. But its the same tactics as Sharpton uses. The people that donated to them are fools. Their getting what they deserve, and hopefully those at the top will also.
So what makes you think they are different than communist leaders elsewhere in the world?
Her peeps deserve mansions, too! What’s the point of a great con if you can’t help your buds out?
The right arm of the DEMOCRATIC party. Follow the money.
Yup, give cash to trash…
THERE IS NO NEWS HERE. IT’S “OLDS”. WHEN YOU WISH TO REPORT ON ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST THESE THIEVING LIARS FOR STEALING, LYING, SUPPORTING ANTI-AMERICAN MOVEMENTS, ETC., THEN WE’LL READ ABOUT IT. DON’T ASK THE REPUBLICANS TO HELP. THEY ARE ALL ASLEEP.
Seriously, does this surprise anyone?
They’re laughing all the way to the bank!!!!! Lovin’ those white idiots money! You’ve all been suckered.
If you’re surprised that BLM is just a front for a bunch of criminals…you’re an idiot. An all those shallow suckers that wrote out their WOKE checks, have to accept the “nobody’s dumber than me award”. Ha, ha, ha…..get ready to write out your reparations checks, and don’t forget huckster Al.
Every time I see the video on TV asking for donations for the starving children in Africa, I wonder just how many millions BLM sent to them?
Pick 500 random black looters…er….protestors from police files. Give them an hour of Q&A about the details of how Patrice hosed them.
Give her a 30 second head start then release the hounds.
More proof that Black LIES Matter, especially to the founder`s bank accounts!
Where else except America can certain races of people break every law in the book and still remain a victim?
The organization is a complete farce. Where are the expendisures helping black people that they say they are helping other than organizing radical leftist to burn and pillage cities when called upon by Obama and Biden cohorts to terrorize citizens.
ALL LIVES MATTER BUT NOT ON ABORtTIONISTS TABLE or when they are GOUGING the PUBLC and playing Poor me
Did you really expect anything different? How many of these groups are really that benevolent? They are in it for themselves. And that includes Joel Osteen. His mansion puts BLM’s to shame.
What is this “Abolition” crap? Slavery was abolished December 9, 1865, with the ratification of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. There has been nothing to abolish for over 150 years. If you are stupid enough to believe anything this group is saying, then that might make sense to you.
Amen and feel like you owe them for something you had no part in nor your family
PUT THEM ALL IN PRISON..
This was all started by False Information to start with ..
Hands up , Don’t shoot was complete and total race baiting BS…
Had enough yet America ?
Lol, BLM advocating for no police, check. No jails, check. No prisons, check.
No violence? , lol.
Liars, thieves, and Judas’, everyone one of them.