“The leader of the Oklahoma City chapter of BLM was just charged by the Department of Justice with wire fraud and money laundering,” reports Pajamas Media:
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson was executive director of Black Lives Matter OKC…the organization received substantial charitable donations, despite not being officially registered as a tax-exempt charity…BLMOKC used its affiliation and sponsorship with Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) to receive charitable donations, despite its non-charity status….a staggering $3.15 million ended up in Dickerson’s personal accounts, used for shopping sprees, a vacation, groceries, and real estate…her expenditures were for:
recreational travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for herself and her associates;
tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping;
at least $50,000 in food and grocery deliveries for herself and her children;
a personal vehicle registered in her name; and
six properties in Oklahoma City deeded in her own name or…an entity she exclusively controlled.
Dickerson submitted two false annual reports, in which she failed to “admit that she had used so much of the money for her own personal indulgence,” and falsely “asserted in the reports that she had used it only for tax-exempt purposes.”
Last week, a federal grand jury indicted Dickerson on 25 counts.
Many in the media turned a blind eye to fraud and wrongdoing committed by BLM activists, treating them as if they were sacred and could do no wrong. Reuters fired a data scientist for criticizing myths peddled by BLM activists.
Earlier, the Daily Caller reported that
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into whether organizations that are part of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement defrauded donors who gave them $90 million as riots erupted across the U.S. in the summer of 2020…The investigation wants to know how Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. (BLMGF) and other allied groups handled the surge of donations it received during the mid-2020 riots that broke out following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020….Federal officials have already served at least one warrant and issued multiple subpoenas as part of the probe into the BLM groups…BLMGF made headlines in April 2022 after New York Magazine reported that the group quietly used $6 million of its charity funds to buy a 6,500 square foot seven-bedroom California mansion in late 2020. The publication contacted BLMGF for comment days earlier. The organization reportedly circulated an internal memo that brainstormed how to “kill the story.”
