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BLM WAS ALWAYS A FRAUD
Powerline ^ | 19 Apr 2022 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 04/20/2022 5:24:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan

I wrote here about the fact that the umbrella Black Lives Matter organization, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, is a fraud. It collected $90 million, largely from panicked corporations, and no one knows what happened to the money, except that a lot of it was spent on luxury real estate purchases and other perks for the organization’s leaders.

But the truth turns out to be even worse than that. BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors has said publicly that the organization did not even attempt to function as a legal entity. First, a little background: every 501(c)(3) organization, of which there are hundreds of thousands, is required to file a Form 990 with the IRS every year. The form includes basic information about the organization, like how much money it brought in, what projects it spent the money on, and how much the principals were paid. This is a totally routine obligation of which everyone in the nonprofit world is well aware.

Except, apparently, the people who ran BLMGNF:

The embattled activist [Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors], who is facing renewed criticism following reports BLM Global Network Foundation, while under her control, purchased a $6 million Los Angeles mansion, said she gets triggered whenever she hears the term IRS Form 990, the document charities are required to file to the public every year disclosing their financial activities.

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1 posted on 04/20/2022 5:24:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Only idiots didn’t see that one coming from a mile away....


2 posted on 04/20/2022 5:27:12 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: Rummyfan

The whole race pimp biz has always been a massive fraud. The greatest pimp of all time was that bastard LBJ.


3 posted on 04/20/2022 5:27:43 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Rummyfan

Murderers too.


4 posted on 04/20/2022 5:28:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: Rummyfan

If you follow cults that turn into religious groups and their financial plans/chaos....BLM tends to follow along the same path. Would beg the question who got into the original BLM design pattern and if they had some past cult experience.


5 posted on 04/20/2022 5:29:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Rummyfan

Form 990 is white supremacy.


6 posted on 04/20/2022 5:31:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: Rummyfan

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7 posted on 04/20/2022 5:32:48 AM PDT by sauropod (o may we start? It's timel to start. High time to start.)
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To: Rummyfan

“...and no one knows what happened to the money...”

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A lot of it is used for cryptic meetings to organize and pay for social agitation and inducing anarchy. I would imagine it’s not cheap to maintain a (inter?)national network of people to swoop in and stir the pot any time you want to attack law enforcement.


8 posted on 04/20/2022 5:32:49 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Rummyfan
BLM is a self-professed Marxist organization.

Marxism is a lie.

Therefore, BLM is a lie.

9 posted on 04/20/2022 5:35:38 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Rummyfan

I’ve got to get on the bottom floor of the next scam. There’s a sucker born every day.


10 posted on 04/20/2022 5:38:20 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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Ah yes. BLM.

The power of extortion and blackmail. It works so well on so many levels. From the ethnic mobs of the early 20th century to the BLM type ethnic mobs of today using the same business model.
“Pay up or .................”


11 posted on 04/20/2022 5:38:34 AM PDT by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: z3n; Rummyfan

Oh, we KNOW what happened to the money.

As with every single Leftist thing like this, it gets siphoned off at every stage into the pockets of people ranging from a Leftist President, Leftist Congress Members, all the way down to privileged trusted (or even un-trusted ones who take it for themselves) corrupt Leftist (is there any other kind) peons at the grass roots level, depending on how they want to disperse the booty.

This is how people like Biden, Pelosi, and Feinstein can amass tens of millions of dollars of personal wealth on the salary of “civil servants”, and how corrupt, race-baiting Leftist shysters (are there any other kind of Leftists) such as Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomet can buy multi-million dollar mansions.

The money for these things comes from stupid idiots, travels along a supply pipe with holes, and money is extracted from every single hole along the way by Corrupticrats who want some of it.


12 posted on 04/20/2022 5:46:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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To: Rummyfan

BLM has always been about the cunning preying on the stupid braindead, low self esteem masses. Blacks filled with hate, and Fat white women most men wouldnt give a second glance at trying to get with the only men who will pay attention to them. Black men who will bang ‘em. And leave them for the next black man to pick up for a few weeks.


13 posted on 04/20/2022 5:50:21 AM PDT by Ikeon (The truth wont dent a persons argument who wants to believe a lie)
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To: Rummyfan

If BLM founders were going to divert contributions into real estate investments, they could have at least invested in section 8 housing. They would at least have a ready made plea for leniency at sentencing for criminal fraud that their theft unintentionally benefitted others as well.


14 posted on 04/20/2022 5:50:25 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Rummyfan

BLM = Bring Lotsa Money


15 posted on 04/20/2022 5:51:16 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Levy78

Back in the 80s, I read “Bonfire of the Vanities” by Tom Wolfe. I have to say it was a very prophetic book — Wolfe did a great job predicting how race would be used to twist the American psyche. One of the characters in the book, Reverend Bacon, is the stereotypical race pimp and must have been used as a model by Al Sharpton.


16 posted on 04/20/2022 5:59:34 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Rummyfan

If BLM were a tea party organization Lois Lerner would have their “leaders” in jail by now.


17 posted on 04/20/2022 6:00:34 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Ikeon

BLM has always been about the cunning preying on the stupid braindead, low self esteem masses.


This is nothing new. BLM is not much different from the “indulgences” sold in the Middle Ages to make the guilty feel better about their sins. In this case the sin is [supposed] racism.

Of course, the policies that BLM advocated actually cost more black lives. But to Libs it’s always been the intention that counts, not the actual outcome.


18 posted on 04/20/2022 6:02:21 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Rummyfan

Created by the Biggest Fraud ever , Obama


19 posted on 04/20/2022 6:09:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: z3n
What happens to the money?
— Furnishes exorbitant salaries and perks for the non-profit leadership + many of their upper management. The rank & file at the bottom probably don't do so badly either. It probably pays better for less effort than working at a real job.
— Goes to support staff (lawyers, consultants)
— Funds other left wing shock troops (e.g., ANTIFA)
— Eventually, finds its way into the coffers of politicians. And this is the most important part, because without a kickback, the flow of $$ will dry up.

The above is true not just for BLM, but for ALL left-leaning non-profits (which is probably 90% of them). Being a non-profit just means they have to spend ALL their money by any means necessary. Further, many companies are coerced into contributing to the NP>

20 posted on 04/20/2022 6:10:30 AM PDT by rbg81
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