{"id":1418411,"date":"2022-04-04T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418411"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:29:39","slug":"blm-spent-6-million-buying-a-california-mansion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-spent-6-million-buying-a-california-mansion-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Spent $6 Million Buying A California Mansion: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-spent-6-million-buying-a-california-mansion-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/12\/Patrisse-Cullors-at-L.A.-Rally.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The leadership of Black Lives Matter spent nearly $6 million in donations to purchase a 6,500-square-foot California mansion with the help of a high-powered Democratic Party law firm, a new investigative report has uncovered. Newly released internal messages show the leadership scurrying to explain how the charity intends to use the home.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) purchased a seven-bedroom home, known as the \u201cCampus,\u201d in October 2020. The sprawling complex includes \u201cseveral fireplaces, a soundstage, a pool and bungalow, and parking for more than 20 cars, according to real-estate listings,\u201d wrote Sean Campbell in New York Magazine late Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transaction has not been previously reported, and Black Lives Matter\u2019s leadership had hoped to keep the house\u2019s existence a secret,\u201d added Campbell, who said he had seen leaked internal memos, emails, and messages about the heretofore unknown real estate purchase.<\/p>\n<p>BLMGNF reportedly spent some of the $90 million in donations acknowledged in its <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/blm-2020-impact-report.pdf\">2020 Impact Report<\/a> to purchase the Campus in secretive and contorted ways that Campbell says \u201cblur, or cross, boundaries between the charity and private companies owned by some of its leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BLMGNF <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/04\/black-lives-matter-6-million-dollar-house.html\">made<\/a> the nearly $6 million purchase through an intermediary named Dyane Pascall, who is financial manager for an LLC owned by BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her wife Janaya Khan. Pascall transferred the home to an LLC established by the Perkins Coie law firm. As this author has reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Starting in April 2016, Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/christopher-steele-who-created-dossier-claiming-ashe-schow\">and<\/a>\u00a0the Democratic National Committee used Perkins Coie to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-obama-paid-nearly-1-million-law-firm-hired-ryan-saavedra\">funnel campaign funds<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2015\/08\/planned-parenthood-hires-fmr-lobbyist-for-sheikh-who-burned-american-flag-during-wartime\/\">Fusion GPS<\/a>, which in turn hired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to produce his salacious \u201cdossier.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Among the most lurid fabrications of his report, which BuzzFeed published in January 2017, is the claim that Donald Trump hired Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed that Barack Obama once slept in.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/walsh-one-crucial-line-mueller-report-media-taking-matt-walsh\">noted<\/a> his \u201cinvestigation did not establish\u201d the dossier\u2019s allegations, and Special Prosecutor John Dunham has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/smear-so-called-investigation-networks-ignore-and-spin-steele-dossier-indictment\">indicted<\/a>\u00a0at least one person with connections to the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>The use of Perkins Coie\u2019s Delaware-based LLC shielded the Campus\u2019 ownership from public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell writes that he asked BLMGNF about the Campus on March 30, then cites private emails and messages between BLMGNF principals attempting to account for the property\u2019s use. The BLMGNF\u2019s leadership said in one such message: \u201cOur angle \u2014 needs to be to deflate ownership of the property.\u201d Another suggested the group portray the Campus as \u201cpart of cultural arm\u201d of BLM, an \u201cinfluencer house\u201d where \u201cbased content is produced by artists &#038; creatives.\u201d Still another message tried to portray the Campus as a \u201csafehouse\u201d for BLM leaders who feel their lives are endangered.<\/p>\n<p>BLM has consistently said expos\u00e9s such as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/10\/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge\/\">the New York Post story<\/a> revealing Cullors\u2019 purchase of four homes for $3.2 million in 2021 could lead to her murder, a tactic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-3-steps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-to-shut-down-media-criticism\">increasingly common among left-wing activists<\/a>. Cullors accused the paper \u201cof being \u2018abusive\u2019 and putting her at risk\u201d \u2014 charges that social media sites used to prevent users from sharing the story, the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/16\/social-media-again-silences-the-post-for-reporting-the-news\/\">noted<\/a> in an editorial.<\/p>\n<p>In a chilling aside, Campbell notes that Bowers has authorized private detectives to investigate \u201cBLMGNF detractors and journalists, including me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BLM\u2019s leaders appear conscious of the fact that competing claims over whether the Campus would be open to a bevy of public artists and creators or kept under rigid security contain internal contradictions. Campbell reports that the memo states, \u201cHoles in security story: Use in public YT [YouTube] videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Cullors used the Campus\u2019 kitchen to shoot a video for her personal YouTube channel, capturing her attempt to make her aunt\u2019s peach cobbler recipe. She and other BLM members also shot a video complaining about press reports of Cullors\u2019 real estate spree. (Cullors, who left her BLM leadership position last year, has always said she used her own funds in those purchases.)<\/p>\n<p>The BLMGNF said publicly on April 1 that the mansion will serve as a cultural center. A statement from board member Shalomyah Bowers said that the mansion will \u201cserve as housing and studio space for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship.\u201d The newly created fellowship, which BLM announced on April 2, \u201cprovides recording resources and dedicated space for Black creatives to launch content online and in real life focused on abolition, healing justice, urban agriculture and food justice, pop culture, activism, and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This $6 million mansion should not be confused with another $6 million mansion purchased with BLM donations. In July 2021, the group transferred millions of dollars to its Canadian chapter, which spent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/29\/black-lives-matter-sent-millions-to-canada-charity-m4bj-for-mansion\/\">$6.3 million<\/a> (U.S.) to buy the former headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada. BLMGNF claimed the Canadian property would <a href=\"https:\/\/wildseedcentre.com\/about\/\">serve<\/a>\u00a0as \u201ca transfeminist, queer affirming space politically aligned with supporting [b]lack liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mansion would also be used as the headquarters of BLM\u2019s Canadian chapter, which is led by Janaya Khan.<\/p>\n<p>BLMGNF has faced allegations that it has failed to account for the tens of millions of dollars in donations it has received, and to share the wealth with its local chapters, since its founding. This author outlined the full history of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation\u2019s financial scandals Sunday on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/sunday-wire-financial-problems-of-blm\">special episode<\/a> of The Daily Wire\u2019s news podcast, \u201cMorning Wire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story \u2026 check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of Black Lives Matter spent nearly $6 million in donations to purchase a 6,500-square-foot California mansion with the help of a high-powered Democratic Party law firm, a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}