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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Unexpected!
Shocked!
Hahahahahahahahahaha
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Is this the same BLM “leader” that bought the mansion?
The Grifters got out grifted.
No surprise.
Maybe they will make him Mayor.
Come-on, man, it’s reparations! don’t be racisss
It’s a criminal organization funded by democrats.
Both Comcast & ATT boasted about “donating” a combined half-billion to BLM
No that was some chick, this is a dude with a stupid name...
Only $10 Million?
Why such a small skim?
LOL
If anyone complains, dey B Raschuus
Not a surprise
They must have gotten lessons from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
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