Shalomyah Bowers
Noah Goldberg – Los Angeles Times Sept 2, 2022
The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.
Shalomyah Bowers was called in the court filing as a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper” who siphoned contributions to the nonprofit activist group to use as a “personal piggy bank,” according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
Bowers’ actions led the foundation into investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorneys general, “blazing a path of irreparable harm to BLM in less than eighteen months,” the suit claims. “While BLM leaders and movement workers were on the street risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his cushy offices devising a scheme of fraud and misrepresentation to break the implied-in-fact contract between donors and BLM.”
The suit, filed by Black Lives Matter Grassroots, was light on details of the alleged theft of funds, but delved into the fissures within the network of Black Lives Matter groups, charting changes in leadership and power that left Bowers with tight control of the organization.
Bowers and his group denied all claims of financial misconduct and chastised those suing him for “falling victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system” in taking legal action against him.
“They would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes,” the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors said in a joint statement.
Bowers is one of three members of the board.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is an administrative organization that raises funds to distribute to Black Lives Matter Grassroots, the umbrella organization for local chapters of the group.
Bowers was hired by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors in 2020 to help raise and distribute money to groups within the foundation.
Attorney Walter Mosley, representing the plaintiffs in the case, alleges that Bowers instead engaged in self-dealing, giving grants to his own consultant firm and charging exorbitant fees reaching eight figures.
“The lawsuit demands that they return the people’s funds and stop impersonating Black Lives Matter,” Mosley said in a statement.
The lawsuit was announced at a news conference Thursday hosted by Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-founder Melina Abdullah, who said that Bowers shut her and other leaders out of the BLM social media accounts in March by changing the passwords.
As Abdullah leveled accusations at Bowers, he shot back in a statement, claiming that she was the one who committed “financial malfeasance.”
He also accused Abdullah of “unprincipled decision making, and a leadership style rooted in retribution and intimidation.”
Black Lives Matter has come under fiscal scrutiny since 2020, when the group received $90 million in donations amid protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
The organization filed its first public IRS 990 tax form in 2022 and was criticized by some for buying a $6-million Studio City compound.
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I would have been surprised if he didn’t steal as much as he could. It’s what those scum do.
That’s their pay-off from the NWO, just as Zelensky takes his as he tries to save Ukraine for them, as even a supranational globalist oligarch movement has to have a base from which to operate, just as the Jews need their Israel base from which to steal and murder. Had BLM been a natural grassroots movement it would have been quickly crushed like Occupy was. Even more so an organic black movement. They can’t allow anything like that. Ergo it’s a fake movement, something false created by and for globalist reasons.
“Our White oppressors”–that’s right, I’m going out soon, as I feel the need to oppress Blacks. It’s all I ever do, my big hobby; I can’t look at a Black without oppressing him, like that time the Black woman was planting flowers round a tree in the street and I kicked her face and broke ten bones in one go–oh no, I remembered it wrong, that was a White woman and a Black kid
“He jus doin wat he gotta do,”
He ripped 10 million from George Soros.
Why do black moms give their kids those ridiculous ghetto names? It only marks those kids as ghetto their whole lives. Hey blacks, if you don’t like the “white oppressors” then go the hell back to africa. I will help you pack.
Don’t worry nothing will happen to him or BLM (Blacks Love Money), just like nothing will happen to your precious Antifa Russian Commies..lol If a group called White Lives Matter embezzled millions they would be dismantled by the IRS & classified as a ‘terrorist group’. Article states BLM received $90 million in donations–yeah from the Federal Reserve…
Remember when major US corporations made huge cash donations to BLM?? The executives of these businesses should follow the CFO of Bed, Bath and Beyond OUT THE WINDOW. And, if you follow/support professional football in the US, you are a TRAITOR!! Did you “take a knee” for the BLM criminals?
First of all, any non-black who has given even one red cent to BLM is a sniveling imbecile, a shameful cuckold, and dangerously stupid. Any white person showing support for BLM should be laughed out of the room at best, or more appropriate would be to recognize the idiot as an enemy of reasonable society as BLM is basically a terrorist organization.
Is anyone actually surprised that, a) the nigger stole a carload of money, b) the opportunistic parasites are at each others’ throats, and c) BLM (Burn Loot Murder) was nothing but a swindling money-grab from the get-go?
I mean, if they really gave as much as a standing piss about black lives mattering, they’d be up in arms about all the black-on-black violence (in New Orleans, 75%+ of the murders were some less-than-worthless nigger smoking some other nigger) and addressing the perpetual gross dysfunctions of black society.
Let’s be honest, it hasn’t been whitey keeping them down, it has been their own wildly distorted values, bad behaviors, stupidity, stunning lack of discipline and dignity, and degenerative actions keeping them down, all consistently demonstrated over thousands of years. But does BLM address any of that to try to affect actual positive change for blacks?? The answer is not only “no”, but “fffuuuuccckkk no”.
Let me post again how Tobias Langdon accurately summed up the issue: “Blacks are invariably the most violent, least intelligent, most destructive, least productive, most narcissistic, and least admirable group in any western society”.
The ultimate in poetic justice would be if all the leadership of BLM literally kill each other fighting over the money.
So the sharks and grifters bleeding the BLM corporate coffers for prime real estate (next to whitey and schlomo) and Tiffany diamond bracelets and large ugly vehicles full of drugs..
have declared that ‘investigating’ their crimes and largesse is a form of colonial aggression and ‘white supremacy’… (unsurprisingly)..
perhaps these impuned blacks in search of justice should dispense with the Yankee legal system altogether and adopt the African freedom fighters preferred method of ‘justice’ ….
‘necklacing’ and ‘pavement barbecue’.. known affectionately to its swarthy advocates as the Winnie Mandela…
or a half burned Nelson…
When do we hear I dindu nuffin?
No dumb coon is capable of fraud on this scale. Somewhere in the background will be Hymie.