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a kennedy

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Fri Sep 2, 2022, 08:44 PM Sep 2022

Damn.....BLM leader has been accused of stealing more then 10 million dollars....

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.

from the Los Angles Times…..

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Damn.....BLM leader has been accused of stealing more then 10 million dollars.... (Original Post) a kennedy Sep 2022 OP
This is fromthe second BLM, not the grassrots. These are hijacking grifters. skip fox Sep 2022 #1
You know this was coming.....monetizing ideas that they had no right to. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #2
Grifters Gonna Grift..................................... alittlelark Sep 2022 #6
Defund Shalomyah Bowers. Sneederbunk Sep 2022 #3
Who is running the foundation? Eric and Ivanka? keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 #4
Blue-eyed soul siblings! Frasier Balzov Sep 2022 #7
Now, now, leave Righteous Brothers out of this. blm Sep 2022 #8
Money corrupts. LoisB Sep 2022 #5
Has NOTHING to do with original BLM. #wedgie live love laugh Sep 2022 #9
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