Who would have thought that Black Lives Matter was a scam?
Back in the summer of 2020, when the movement by that name was sweeping the nation in a wave of violence, intimidation, and arson, an organization by that name was poised to cash in. And oh boy, cash in it did.
According to its first-ever public tax disclosures, filed just a few years late, the BLM Global Network Foundation took in $77 million in 2020. Where did it go? More than $969,000 went to the father of the child of Patrisse Cullors, the organization’s then executive director and co-founder. Her brother’s company received an $841,000 payout. The group paid nearly $2.2 million to a consulting firm owned by one of its board members. It famously paid $6 million for a mansion in Los Angeles’s Studio City neighborhood, which Cullors then used for personal purposes. Last July, it also shifted $8.1 million in cash to a Canadian subsidiary to purchase a Toronto property.