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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Coke and whores.
>> Are there no needy schools in Black America?
Indeed there are.
One would think.
You can take the brotha out of the hood
But you can’t take the hood out of the brotha
Noun 1. grifter - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, scammer, swindler, gouger
Again? How many times is this now?
I find this amusing.
Unpaid idiots were protesting (mostly peacefully) in the streets, getting tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets. These folks, on average, probably looted a few hundred dollars each.
Away from the smoke, violence, and mace the criminal crew at the top looted millions.
To me this looks like exploiting the working class.
Well, black people and white liberals don’t seem to care about it, so why should I?
Indeed who didn’t see that coming.
It is the guy on the right.
Yeah, I know. Saw ‘Shalomyah’ and was too quick to assign that to a gal grifter. I’ll do better next time.
Saw ‘Shalomyah’
Weren’t they that band that did “Dancing in the Sheets”?
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