A lawsuit filed on behalf of 26 grassroots Black Lives Matter chapters last week, accuses #ShalomyahBowers of siphoning $10 million in charitable contributions to pay for his own personal expenses.
The lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims that Shalomyah Bowers defrauded the local chapters for “unjust enrichment” and used their funds as his “personal piggy bank.”
According to @nypost, Shalomyah, who became head of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation back in April, is accused of paying the cash to his own Bowers Consulting Firm, and diverting resources from a new group called Black Lives Matter Grassroots, Inc.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board of directors denied the allegations in a statement shared to their website on Thursday. Shalomyah and his group even accused those who are suing him of “falling victim to the carceral logic and social violence that fuels the legal system.” Saying, ”they would rather take the same steps of our white oppressors and utilize the criminal legal system which is propped up by white supremacy (the same system they say they want to dismantle) to solve movement disputes.”
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