The Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization continues to be a shady and hypocritical movement, as founders of BLM are caught in a scandal after purchasing an overpriced mansion using donation money.
It was revealed recently that BLM, whose founders capitalized on George Floyd’s death in 2020, bought a mansion in Los Angeles, California costing nearly $6 million.
Here’s how Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, marked the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. She’s toasting her co-leaders at a $6 million “campus” (Studio City mansion) purchased by BLM. pic.twitter.com/ac7nOJpiJv
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According to the Daily Mail, they bought it from a real estate developer who works for the movement’s founder, Patrisse Cullors, and her wife, paying him $5.8 million. The developer also bought the same property for only $3.1 million just days earlier.
The purchase has raised serious questions from ethics experts, including Tom Anderson, director of the government integrity project at the National Legal and Policy Center.
“A review of property assessment records show the value of the mansion BLMGNF purchased skyrocketed while all the neighboring properties saw an average of less than a five percent increase,” Anderson told reporters. “This raises serious questions concerning the purchase price of the house and the way the transaction was handled through cash and a shadowy LLC.”
Every organization that has been recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS has to file Form 990 every year. BLM has never submitted a 990, according to Nonprofit Explorer.
This isn’t the first time that BLM exhibited a typical lack of morals and enjoyed lives of luxury at the cost of the general public.
In February 2021, the organization said it raised over $90 million in donations the previous year, with $60 million still on hand. However, they have not disclosed where the remaining money went.
Cullors denied the accusations and said in a statement that she never set foot on the property, but failed to explain the whopping price tag.
“I do not own the property, have never lived there and made that clear to the reporter,” she said. “I want to be clear: While I will always see myself as a part of the BLM community, I am no longer in leadership and I am not a part of any decision-making processes within the foundation.”
She also insisted that BLM has never misappropriated funds, even though their recent purchase of a lavish house says otherwise.
