The national Black Lives Matter group purchased a $6 million mansion in a Los Angeles neighborhood with donor cash in October 2020 and then maneuvered to keep the purchase a secret, according to a report Monday.
BLM Global Network Foundation used a man with close business ties to the charity's co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, to purchase the luxury mansion with the charity's cash resources, according to a report by New York magazine. The property purchase came just two weeks after BLM received a $66.5 million cash infusion from its former fiscal sponsor on Oct. 6, 2020.
BLM also used charitable resources to help BLM Canada purchase a mansion in Toronto in July 2021 for the equivalent of $6.3 million, the Washington Examiner previously reported. The memo also described the mansion as a"safehouse" for the charity's leaders who say their lives have been threatened by reporting on the group's finances by media outlets such as the Washington Examiner.
The mansion's patio was also used to film a one-year anniversary video for Floyd's killing, which was uploaded to Cullors's personal YouTube channel. The patio in the video also appears virtually identical to pictures of the patio on the property's real estate listing. Paul Kamenar, an attorney for the watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center, said Monday that Cullors's use of BLM's property for use on her personal YouTube channel appears to be an IRS violation.
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