{"id":1478474,"date":"2022-05-17T15:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478474"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:59:44","slug":"blm-co-founder-paid-her-babys-father-970000-for-creative-services-brother-840000-for-security-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-co-founder-paid-her-babys-father-970000-for-creative-services-brother-840000-for-security-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Co-Founder Paid Her Baby\u2019s Father $970,000 For \u2018Creative Services,\u2019 Brother $840,000 For Security: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-co-founder-paid-her-babys-father-970000-for-creative-services-brother-840000-for-security-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=1478474&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\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1218413512.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Black Lives Matter is making bank.<\/p>\n<p>Executives of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network Foundation Inc. \u201chave nearly $42 million in assets, despite spending more than $37 million from July 2020 to June 2021,\u201d Fox News reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes from a 63-page compilation of tax documents acquired by the Associated Press, Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/black-lives-matter-42-million-assets-irs\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within the documents were some interesting numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewly released tax filings revealed how Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her friends and family large sums for various \u2018consulting\u2019 services, as well as charter a private flight,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10823779\/New-tax-filings-reveal-BLM-founder-Patrisse-Cullors-spent-foundations-funds.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe documents reveal that BLM paid a company owned by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors\u2019 child, nearly $970,000 to help \u2018produce live events\u2019 and provide other \u2018creative services.\u2019\u00a0The co-founder\u2019s brother, Paul Cullors, received more than $840,000 for providing security services to the foundation,\u201d the UK paper wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Others made big bank from the non-profit organization, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA consulting firm run by Shalomyah Bowers, who is BLM\u2019s board secretary and has previously served as deputy executive director, was paid more than $2.1 million for providing the organization with operational support, including staffing, fundraising and other key services,\u201d the Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cullors resigned from the organization amid questions about its finances. She has denied claims she used money for personal matters and later \u201creimbursed BLM $73,523 for a charter flight for foundation-related travel, which the organization says she took in 2021 out of concern for COVID-19 and security threats,\u201d the Mail reported. Nearly $6 million of cash collected by the organization was spent on a six-bedroom, six-bathroom house in Studio City that features a swimming pool, a soundstage and ample office space.<\/p>\n<p>The tax filing also says the foundation invested $32 million in stocks from the $90 million it collected amid racial justice protests in 2020 that occurred in major cities across the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0following the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Mittendorf, Ph.D., an accounting professor at Ohio State University, told Fox that the tax disclosure will likely set up the foundation for criticism because its \u201chuge windfall\u201d has a \u201cmismatch\u201d and \u201cgaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt comes across as an early startup nonprofit, without substantial governance structure in place, that got a huge windfall,\u201d Mittendorf told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are going to be quick to assume that mismatch reflects intent. Whether there\u2019s anything improper here, that is another question,\u201d the professor said. \u201cBut whether they set themselves up for being criticized, I think that certainly is the case because they didn\u2019t plug a bunch of those gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lives Matter is making bank.Executives of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network Foundation Inc. \u201chave nearly $42 million in assets, despite spending more than $37 million from July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1483457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478474","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\/1478474","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}