With all of the current pro-Hamas protesting and rioting going on these days, it can be easy to lose track of the similar activities that took place during 2020's summer of love. Those riots gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and all it entailed. Unlike today's anti-Israel forces that are only supported by a small minority of people, BLM caught fire. Celebrities were tripping over themselves to rush out and promote fundraising and donations for whoever was supposedly organizing BLM and the money quickly mounted into the millions. Much of that cash wound up being funneled through a leftist dark money organization called the Tides Foundation. But as the Free Beacon reports this week, there seems to be trouble in paradise once again. A group called Black Lives Matter Grassroots is suing the Tides Foundation because (once again) it seems that nearly nine million dollars intended to go to the movement has mysteriously disappeared.
The left-wing dark money giant Tides Foundation raised more than $33 million on behalf of the national Black Lives Matter group during the George Floyd riots in 2020. Now, Black Lives Matter is suing Tides over its refusal to hand the funds back. There’s just one problem—nearly $9 million of those funds have seemingly disappeared.
From 2020 through 2022, Tides transferred $8.7 million from the fund to Black Lives Matter Grassroots, an offshoot of the national Black Lives Matter group led by Melina Abdullah, a longtime activist and professor. But Black Lives Matter Grassroots reported to the IRS that it never received that money, and no one involved in the transactions will say what became of the funds. These discrepancies have left charity watchdogs mystified, while legal experts say they could lead to massive fines and penalties.
