Washington Examiner 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.
That’s all separate from Cullors’s own $3.2 million real estate binge, whose exposure prompted her to resign her position with the organization. She insists that that money did not come from the charity’s funds. Maybe she was just independently wealthy when she started there because according to the tax filings, she did not receive any salary for her work as executive director…
