{"id":247647,"date":"2021-03-18T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247647"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:00:23","slug":"man-posing-as-black-lives-matter-leader-indicted-for-spending-donations-on-house-guns-and-prostitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-posing-as-black-lives-matter-leader-indicted-for-spending-donations-on-house-guns-and-prostitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Posing As Black Lives Matter Leader Indicted For Spending Donations On House, Guns, And Prostitute"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fman-posing-as-black-lives-matter-leader-indicted-for-spending-donations-on-house-guns-and-prostitute%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=247647&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1841.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An Ohio man who claimed to be a Black Lives Matter leader in Atlanta used the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations he received on personal expenses, including buying a house and paying a prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Maejor Page, 32, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland last week on three counts of money laundering and one count of wire fraud, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndoh\/pr\/toledo-man-charged-using-black-lives-matter-greater-atlanta-facebook-page-defraud\">announced<\/a>. Page is accused of creating a 501(c)(3) Facebook page called \u201cBlack Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta,\u201d using the page to raise more than $450,000 from donors after its tax-exempt status as a charity was revoked by the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>Page claimed the donations would be used to fight for racial and social justice, even though the organization was no longer an official charity. Page used the donations instead for his personal benefit, spending money on \u201centertainment, hotel rooms, clothing and firearms,\u201d as well as purchasing a home in Toledo, Ohio and paying a prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese allegations involve fraudulent misrepresentations that the donations received would support Black Lives Matter (Atlanta, Georgia) when, as stated in the indictment, those funds were actually used by the defendant for personal expenses he incurred in Toledo and elsewhere,\u201d Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan said in a DOJ press release. \u201cIt is our sincere hope that these charges help raise awareness about online scams and efforts by some to exploit the name and purpose of non-profit organizations for personal gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Page allegedly began the scam in February 2016, registering the organization\u2019s name with the Georgia Secretary of State Corporation\u2019s Division, taking on the role of president and CEO. Facebook recognized BLMGA as a valid charity, allowing users to make donations.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, in May 2019, the IRS revoked BLMGA\u2019s tax-exempt status due to Page\u2019s failure to submit the proper paperwork for three consecutive years. Page allegedly failed to notify Facebook of the situation, continuing to accept donations. More from the DOJ:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>To create the false pretense and representation that BLMGA was a legitimate social justice organization, the defendant routinely made posts on BLMGA\u2019s public Facebook page about social and racial issues, including those occurring in Georgia. In addition to falsely representing BLMGA as a legitimate non-profit organization, the defendant is accused of using the BLMGA Facebook handle to privately communicate with other Facebook users and falsely represented that the donations would be used to \u201cfight for George Floyd\u201d and the \u201cmovement.\u201d&nbsp; As a result, over one hundred people donated to BLMGA through its Facebook page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is alleged that the defendant used a substantial portion of the funds donated to BLMGA to buy personal items, including entertainment, hotel rooms, clothing and firearms.&nbsp; The defendant is accused of using the largest sum of funds to purchase a property and the adjoining vacant lot on Glenwood Avenue and Maplewood Avenue in Toledo, Ohio. This property was to be used as a personal residence for the defendant, the indictment states. The defendant allegedly attempted to conceal the purchase of the property by titling it to \u201cHi Frequency Ohio\u201d and requesting that the seller\u2019s realtor enter into a nondisclosure agreement. This prevented the seller from disclosing that the defendant was the true buyer and that he used BLMGA funds to make the purchase.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPage is accused of using unprecedented tensions and uncertainty due to widespread civil unrest and a global pandemic to fill his own bank account,\u201d FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said in the press release. \u201cPage allegedly purchased homes, traveled, and spent other people\u2019s money to buy luxury items for himself, all on the backs of hardworking people believing they were donating to a worthy cause. The FBI will continue efforts to root out fraudsters who victimize our fellow citizens for personal gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ohio man who claimed to be a Black Lives Matter leader in Atlanta used the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations he received on personal expenses, including buying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310753,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1841.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Posing As Black Lives Matter Leader Indicted For Spending Donations On House, Guns, And Prostitute","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1841.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Posing As Black Lives Matter Leader Indicted For Spending Donations On House, Guns, And Prostitute","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247647","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}