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Black Lives Matter internal war: BLM leader accused of stealing $10 million

A new scandal shakes the radical Black Lives Matter movement. 26 of its branches accuse the BLM foundation of diverting funds from donations.

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(Cordon Press)

Published by
Juan Carlos Téllez

A coalition of 26 branches of the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement filed a lawsuit against the national organization's leader, Shalomyah Bowers, accusing him of diverting $10 million from 'charitable' contributions to pay his own personal expenses.

The complaint, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, is directed against the movement's executive, the BLM Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), Bowers' consulting firm and a number of other individuals at the top of the radical movement. The plaintiffs, members of Black Lives Matter, accuse Bowers of being a "dishonest administrator" and a "usurper."

While BLM leaders and movement workers were out on the streets risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his comfortable offices devising a fraud and misrepresentation scheme to break the contract between the donors and BLM.

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The Black Lives Matter Global Network foundation raised $90 million in 2020, the year in which the BLM movement achieved worldwide fame after the looting, vandalism and homicides they staged around the country in the wake of criminal George Floyd's death.

Shalomyah Bowers was hired in 2020 by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors to help run the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, an extension of the BLM grassroots organization, the lawsuit recalled. Now the plaintiffs, Black Lives Matter Grassroots (BLMGR), accuse Bowers of defrauding local chapters for his "unjust enrichment" and using movement funds for his "personal piggy bank."

A radical movement under suspicion

Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the BLM movement, stepped down as executive director in May 2021 after it became known that she had a housing portfolio valued at more than $3 million. Then suspicions began to arise about where the donations to the radical movement were going.

Like Cullors, who accused those who had revealed information about her properties as being "racist" and "sexist"; now BLMGNF's board of directors has defended themselves by accusing those who have uncovered their alleged irregularities. "The allegations by Melina Abdullah and BLM Grassroots are false, slanderous and lack reality," the foundation said in a statement. Bowers and his group went on to insult those who sue him, accusing them of "being victims of the prison logic and social violence that fuels the legal system."

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