As America reckoned with the tragic death of George Floyd, the organization behind the movement, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, received a tsunami of donations—raking in a jaw-dropping $90 million between 2020 and 2022. Corporations, celebrities, and many everyday people gave generously to the group, which billed itself as the preeminent civil rights group in the country and claimed to be organizing a more efficient way to fight the epidemic of racism.
But it sure looks like it was all a sham. In fact, a new report found that the group donated only 33% of the funds they raised to charitable foundations, and of that, $4.5 million went to the movement’s own supporters, family members, and friends.
Co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent $3.2 million on real estate in the US alone before being pressured to resign from the organization she founded in 2021. Meanwhile, her brother’s company received funds that totaled $1.6 million from the organization. And these anecdotes are really just the tip of the iceberg in what now appears to be a case of fraud by the founders of the organization.
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