One of the main leaders for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused via a recent lawsuit filed this past week of stealing multiple millions of dollars from the group via a “scheme of fraud and misrepresentation.”
This lawsuit, which has been filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court as of this past Thursday by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, accused one of the three members seated on the group’s board of directors, Shalomyah Bowers, of stealing well over $10 million from the extreme-left activist group for his own personal use.
The Los Angeles Times highlighted that the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raises quite a bit of funding via donations that are then filtered out to the Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which is “the umbrella organization for local chapters of the group.”
This lawsuit put a series of state- and federal-level investigations into the group concerning Bowers’ alleged actions, hurling accusations at him of making use of the group’s funding as a “personal piggy bank” and causing the organization “irreparable harm” over a period of a few months.
“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,” stated the lawsuit.
Bowers and the board of directors from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation made the claim that those who filed the lawsuit were effectively racists.
“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,” explained the organization.
Bowers was first brought onboard by Patrisse Cullors, the Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder, back in 2020, which is the year of the original George Floyd Riots, in order to assist in the raising of funds for the group.
Cullors officially announced last May that she was resigning from the group throughout controversy and widespread criticism due to the extremely violent riots that broke out all over the U.S. back in 2020, the extremist ideals of the group, and the overt controversy stemming from Cullors’ lavish lifestyle, which seemed to include the purchasing of “four high-end homes for $3.2 million in the U.S. alone.”
In the wake of Cullors stepping down, the mothers of Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, and many others spoke out, hurling accusations at Both BLM and Cullors of utilizing the deaths of their kids to make money, but never actually using the money to help black families in need.