Posted on 09/02/2022 6:37:56 PM PDT by Libloather
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.”
The suit, filed by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, was light on details of Bowers’ alleged theft of funds, but delved into the fissures within the network of Black Lives Matter groups, charting changes in leadership and power that left Bowers with tight control of the organization.
Bowers and his group denied all of the claims of financial misconduct and chastised those suing him for “falling victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system” in taking legal action against him.
“They would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors said...
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Sounds exactly like what congress does.....
Almost everybody knew this would be the case!
Shalomyah sounds like a name one of those Black Hebews cult members would use.
sheesh
so Patrice Cuillor & co load up on real estate and bail
then the next bunch is helping themselves as well
this cant be good for fundraising
even virtue signaling suckers have their limits
where is a thousand currents(ayers buddies) in all this
they were the fiscal sponsor before blm got a 501c
no patrice cuillor, the trained marxist and grifter, bailed when her real estate empire came to light
Crooks are gonna be crooks, thieves are gonna be thieves. Just because they have white jackass politicians painting words on the roads doesn’t mean they aren’t criminals.
Thievery is what they do.
oh no this is amateur compared to the grifters in congress
congress members are the masters at laundering money
blm should have consulted with them
maybe they should have hired hunter as a bag man
he usually takes his fee in crack and hookers
the local chapters are the real losers here
this must be why they have been so quiet lately
imagine reading all the news articles about multimillion donations and not seeing any of it
He didn’t get the coaching. You steal $10 million and Klickitat five back to political allies and you’re as good as gold. You get greedy and don’t share........well that’s another matter entirely
Nobody told him you take five and launder five for the house of Beltway.
What are all these different BLM groups? Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Black Lives Matter Grassroots, Famous Original Black Lives Matter, Original Famous Black Lives Matter, Ray’s Black Lives Matter No. 2,
Patrice used proceeds from her leftist writings to buy real estate for herself and family.
Some pigs are truly piggish.
I’m sure he put it to better use than BLM would have.
“half billion”
Are there no needy schools in Black America?
No major corporation could be blamed for using ‘black’ public relations money to fund schools and scholarships for black kids.
A crime cartel.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.
There are crooks running Burn Loot and Murder?
I’m shocked
Shalomyah Bowers’s brother is named, “Shama Lama Ding Dong”
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