(It was obvious to me!)
Records reveal that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) has unethically and criminally used charitable contributions to enrich family members of the Black Lives Matter cabal, and of course, the leaders of the cabal themselves.
Gee. What a surprise.
Tax filings show that…
- BLM’s foundation paid the consulting firm BOWERS nearly $2.6 million for “staffing and management services.” Shalomyah Bowers, the secretary of the charity’s board, owns at least 35% of that firm. A coincidence, I’m sure.
- Bowers also serves as the treasurer Black Lives Matter PAC. In 2023, Bowers directed the majority of the PAC’s expenditures to his own firm his firm for “strategic consulting services.”
- BLMGNF head of security Paul Cullors is Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ brother. He owns at least 35% of Black Ties LLC, and BLMGNF paid out $1.6 million to that firm for “professional security services.”
- New Impact Partners is a consulting firm owned by Danielle Edwards, the sister of BLMGNF director of operations Raymond Howard. It sucked out $913,500 from the foundation for “consulting services.”
- BLMGNF paid “Trap Heal,” about $780,000 for “live production, design and media” work. That firm is run by Damon Turner, who has a child with Patrisse Cullors,
Is this a great country or what?
Although BLMGNF paid out millions to companies owned by BLM leadership and and their relatives in 2023, the foundation had over a $6 million deficit. This is just a second verse to an old song. BLMGNF has been paying millions to companies linked to co-founder Patrisse Cullors’s friends and family as well as others in BLM the inner circle for years. It used charitable dollars to purchase a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles, and Reform LA Jails, another nonprofit scam led by Cullors, spent a lot of its charitable funds at a luxury resort in 2019.
Usually misbehaving non-profits argue for special consideration and mercy using Rationalization #13. The Saint’s Excuse, or “It’s for a good cause.” The theory is that when an organization or an individual has done so much good, a little corruption or an ethics slip here and there should be forgiven. The theory is garbage, but even if it weren’t, Black Lives Matter and its various tentacles wouldn’t qualify.
BLM has done nothing good from the very beginning. It is based on lies (“Hands up! Don’t shoot!”), seeks to destroy the nuclear family and capitalism, and is anti-American to the core. It is also an anti-white racist organization that has been a divisive force in our society. It has sparked riots, and billions of dollars of property expense and law enforcement costs across the country. It has intimidated weak-spined and woke municipalities into cutting back on police forces, resulting in exploding crime rates in several cities. The intimidating tactics of BLM has created a police culture that is hesitant to engage with black suspects, crippling law enforcement and endangering public safety. Not only that, but we have Black Lives Matter to thank, among others, for the DEI “good discrimination” that has attempted to make racial preferences rather than success through merit and talent the cultural norm.
Okay, okay, so it’s racist, divisive, discriminatory, violent, destructive and anti-American. But the scam is a bonanza for its founders and leaders!
Every company, organization, sports team, politician, elected official, pundit, educator and journalist who rushed to embrace this ongoing cynical, criminal enterprise has been an accessory, and in this I include my obnoxious, gullible neighbor who had a giant, home-made “Black Lives Matter” display in front of her house for three years.
Be proud, you saps.
Ethics Alarms 
I never understood why anyone would donate to BLM in the first place. What exactly were they going to do with the money? They never (to my knowledge) outlined specific goals or metrics.
It certainly felt like a giant reparations scheme, but hey, at least it was voluntary. I do feel like there should be a lot of shareholders bringing suits against companies that betrayed their trust by throwing money at an obvious scam.
“What exactly were they going to do with the money?“
“A Fool And His Money Are Lucky Enough To Get Together In The First Place” G. Gekko
PWS
It’s a shame that the source of this article is The Daily Caller. I don’t doubt the factual basis of what it says, but The Daily Caller was founded in part by none other than Tucker Carlson, who is a talented broadcaster but a man of extremely dubious ethics, as has often been noted here.
Further, its status as a known hyperbolic right-wing website basically means that sharing this information will be instantly met with denial by those on the left.
No doubt. Attacking the source is but one tool in the denial arsenal. If more mainstream media were willing to report these facts, we wouldn’t have to rely on Tucker.
Drives me nuts. As is often the case, the Free Beacon has been tracking this story, with the DC following up. It’s barely on the MSM’s radar. So that’s the set-up: the MSM buries a story, and when an outlet like the Daily Caller does what the Times or Post should be doing, they can call the report a “conservative news story.”
I’m amazed scam artists fill out these sorts of filings. Kind of funny, isn’t it? I guess all their corporate enablers have provided them with diligent legal and accounting services, so they actually disclose all this stuff? Maybe this is even more brazen than taking the money and running off to someplace that has no extradition treaty with the U.S. Maybe they know they will never be prosecuted, never mind be asked to give the money back. That would certainly be racist.
The tax stuff? They have to, or they lose their scamming ability: the IRS will cancel their non-profit status.
So, they’ll stay in compliance, placing all their dirty laundry in plain sight. The dirty laundry will be ignored, and they’ll continue on their merry way getting massive donations from corporate donors. Amazing. Truly third world. shithole country stuff.
And of course, they’ll say the white establishment is corrupt!
Yes, after 3 years, if you don’t file form 990, which is the tax return for non-profits, the IRS will rescind their 501(c)(3) status.
The IRS maintains a website (you can find a link somewhere on the main IRS website) that lists all the organizations certified as 501(c)(3) charities — i.e. the charities that you can make tax deductible contributions to. If their status is rescinded, they will be removed from this website. I don’t know if there is a separate site that lists the organizations whose status has been removed.
If you look at an organization’s web site, if they are on that list they can state that “contributions are deductible to the full extent allowed by law” or something along those lines. That means they’re on the list and if they are not, they cannot have that language on their web site or on their mailings. I would assume that it would be a prosecutable crime to say such a thing after your status has been revoked.
And, if it has not been mentioned here, form 990’s are public records.