BLM Co-Founder Drops Millions Of Dollars On Several Homes For Herself

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Boston BLM Activist and Husband Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come to light"-- Luke 8:17. God is good...

Obviously white supremacists going after them only because they're black.

[seanD]

Boston BLM Activist and Husband Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges

"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come to light"-- Luke 8:17. God is good...

A Black Lives Matter activist and her husband are facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges after allegedly using a nonprofit they founded to scam at least $185,000 from donors, federal authorities announced Tuesday.

Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant, allegedly used money from their nonprofit, Violence in Boston, to pay for rent, shopping sprees, hotels, car rentals, auto repairs, meal deliveries, and a summer vacation trip to Maryland, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.

The couple was charged in an 18-count indictment with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of conspiracy, 13 counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to a mortgage-lending business. Cannon-Grant was also charged with one count of mail fraud.

Cannon-Grant was arrested Tuesday and released without bail. She will be allowed to continue working at the nonprofit twice a week but can’t handle its finances, the Boston Globe reported. Federal agents arrested Grant in October and charged him with lying on a mortgage statement and collecting pandemic unemployment benefits illegally.

Cannon-Grant’s lawyer, Robert Goldstein, claimed prosecutors had “rushed to judgment,” adding, “We remain fully confident Monica will be vindicated when a complete factual record emerges.”

“Drawing conclusions from an incomplete factual record does not represent the fair and fully informed process a citizen deserves from its government, especially someone like Monica who has worked tirelessly on behalf of her community,” Goldstein said in a statement obtained by Fox News.

The couple first founded Violence in Boston in 2017 with a mission to “improve the quality of life and life outcomes of individuals from underserved communities by reducing the prevalence of violence and the impact of associated trauma while addressing social injustices through advocacy and direct services,” according to its website.

Cannon-Grant was later named “Best Social Justice Advocate” by Boston Magazine and was one of the Boston Globe’s “Bostonians of the Year.” She is a prominent Black Lives Matter leader in the city, according to Fox News.

The Cambridge, Mass., chapter of Black Lives Matter became an early donor to Violence in Boston, giving $3,000 to the organization for its program to feed children in need. The couple allegedly transferred that donation to the bank account of one of Cannon-Grant’s family members, according to the indictment as reported by the New York Post.

The couple also allegedly took a trip to Columbia, Md., in 2019 using a $6,000 grant the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office gave Violence in Boston to take ten at-risk young men on a three-day violence-prevention retreat in Philadelphia.

The next year, the nonprofit collected donations of up to $50,000 per month. The couple withdrew some of the money in cash from ATMs or transferred the donations to investment accounts at the Robinhood and E-Trade websites, according to the indictment.

Cannon-Grant and her husband also allegedly illegally collected an estimated $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits.

The pair collected unemployment benefits while Cannon-Grant allegedly earned more than $27,000 in consulting fees for working with a media company on its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” training and took home a $2,788 weekly salary from Violence in Boston, according to the indictment. Meanwhile, Grant had full-time employment with a commuter services company.

In March 2021, Cannon-Grant allegedly texted her husband that “Unemployment caught my a**!” Grant suggested she should have an associate pen a letter falsely stating that Violence in Boston’s headquarters was closed, according to the indictment. Though the associate did not write such a letter, the unnamed associate allegedly created a back-dated letter that Grant used to scam unemployment payments.

The couple also allegedly used the nonprofit’s assets to qualify for a mortgage to buy a home in the Boston suburbs.

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I bet they're not using My Pillow Giza sheets!

[rogue06]

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[Cow Poke]

Jackson actually mastered the shaking down of major businesses and corporations, with boycotts and protests avoid by means of contributions to the cause and the hiring of PUSH as a consulting firm.

and BLM is taking that playbook to a whole new level! They're making the Rev look like a chump at this game.

[rogue06]

Kinda like poverty pimps Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson -- they've found a way to get rich on the backs of the poor while adding nothing of value.

Jackson actually mastered the shaking down of major businesses and corporations, with boycotts and protests avoid by means of contributions to the cause and the hiring of PUSH as a consulting firm.

[Cow Poke]

The question is, who are they accountable to? Did they ever make promises about how the money would be spent? And if they did, are those promises necessarily legally binding? It seems more like a "Go Fund Me" page, where the recipient is free to do with the money whatever they wish.

Kinda like poverty pimps Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson -- they've found a way to get rich on the backs of the poor while adding nothing of value.

[rogue06]

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[Mountain Man]

The question is, who are they accountable to? Did they ever make promises about how the money would be spent? And if they did, are those promises necessarily legally binding? It seems more like a "Go Fund Me" page, where the recipient is free to do with the money whatever they wish.

[rogue06]

Source: https://bongino.com/families-of-michael-brown-and-breonna-taylor-ask-black-lives-matter-where-the-money-went/?fbclid=IwAR2HCBUMLMLZ7WQA3X6E9nR5VbIQJwNTAdqN2usgjD11VJzPgtcv76VfnA8

Families of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor Ask Black Lives Matter Where the Money Went

Black Lives Matter made an awful lot of money talking about the deaths of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor and now their families are wondering where the money went.

This comes on the heels of a couple of intriguing stories about the finances of #BlackLivesMatter. Last month a Toledo Man that ran a Facebook page called, Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, was charged with using $450,000 in donated money to fill his own pockets. Of course, since then, we’ve learned the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, has spent more than $3 million dollars on four homes since 2016.

The mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police during a raid in March 2020, charged that the movement in her city of Louisville, Kentucky, is nothing more than a scam.

“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville, and personally have found them to be fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote on Facebook. “I could walk in a room full of people who claim to be here for Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am,” Palmer said. “I’ve watched y’all raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us nor have we needed it … or asked so talk about fraud. It’s amazing how many people have lost focus … I’m gonna say this before I go. I’m so sick of some of y’all.”

…Last month, the father of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot and killed by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, asked Black Lives Matter a simple question: “Where is all that money going?”

“Who are they giving [the money] to, and what are they doing with it?” Michael Brown Sr. asked. “Why hasn’t my family’s foundation received any assistance from the movement? How could you leave the families who are helping the community without any funding?”

As someone who has written a much-publicized report about how some conservative PACS rip people off, I can tell you definitively that this kind of thing is a common occurrence in politics.

Activists create a group and it catches fire. Next thing you know, the money starts rolling in. Then they start hiring staff and spending money on things that they never would have considered in the early days of the organization. Then it occurs to them that this could actually make them rich. Eventually, more money starts flowing into their pockets and less money goes to the cause. Finally, the whole thing primarily turns into a vehicle for them to get paid, and if some activism occurs along the way, great.

There are reasons why almost infinite amounts of money flow into politics, but very little ever seems to get accomplished other than consultants, politicians, and activists getting very rich. There’s an awful lot of money being skimmed off the top and put into people’s pockets and if they ever audit the books for Black Lives Matter, that’s probably exactly what you will see.

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If anyone seriously demanded an audit of BLM they would be doxxed by SJWs on Social Media and those defending them would even come under attack.

[Sparko]

Source: https://bongino.com/families-of-michael-brown-and-breonna-taylor-ask-black-lives-matter-where-the-money-went/?fbclid=IwAR2HCBUMLMLZ7WQA3X6E9nR5VbIQJwNTAdqN2usgjD11VJzPgtcv76VfnA8

Families of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor Ask Black Lives Matter Where the Money Went

Black Lives Matter made an awful lot of money talking about the deaths of Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor and now their families are wondering where the money went.

This comes on the heels of a couple of intriguing stories about the finances of #BlackLivesMatter. Last month a Toledo Man that ran a Facebook page called, Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, was charged with using $450,000 in donated money to fill his own pockets. Of course, since then, we’ve learned the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Marxist Patrisse Khan-Cullors, has spent more than $3 million dollars on four homes since 2016.

The mother of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police during a raid in March 2020, charged that the movement in her city of Louisville, Kentucky, is nothing more than a scam.

“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville, and personally have found them to be fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote on Facebook. “I could walk in a room full of people who claim to be here for Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am,” Palmer said. “I’ve watched y’all raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us nor have we needed it … or asked so talk about fraud. It’s amazing how many people have lost focus … I’m gonna say this before I go. I’m so sick of some of y’all.”

…Last month, the father of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot and killed by police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, asked Black Lives Matter a simple question: “Where is all that money going?”

“Who are they giving [the money] to, and what are they doing with it?” Michael Brown Sr. asked. “Why hasn’t my family’s foundation received any assistance from the movement? How could you leave the families who are helping the community without any funding?”

As someone who has written a much-publicized report about how some conservative PACS rip people off, I can tell you definitively that this kind of thing is a common occurrence in politics.

Activists create a group and it catches fire. Next thing you know, the money starts rolling in. Then they start hiring staff and spending money on things that they never would have considered in the early days of the organization. Then it occurs to them that this could actually make them rich. Eventually, more money starts flowing into their pockets and less money goes to the cause. Finally, the whole thing primarily turns into a vehicle for them to get paid, and if some activism occurs along the way, great.

There are reasons why almost infinite amounts of money flow into politics, but very little ever seems to get accomplished other than consultants, politicians, and activists getting very rich. There’s an awful lot of money being skimmed off the top and put into people’s pockets and if they ever audit the books for Black Lives Matter, that’s probably exactly what you will see.

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[rogue06]

Maybe the "security" means "BLM mob".

A friend of mine snarked it was probably a ruse to pay off a drug debt and declare it an expense come tax time.

[mossrose]

I'm curious why the reporter referred to it as "security" including the scare quotes around the word.

Maybe the "security" means "BLM mob".

[rogue06]

[Left hat]
Thats entirely different. You are ignoring history. A bunch of people protesting outside of a black person's house reeks of lynching. You must have white sheets to make that sort of comparison.
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Of course nobody was protesting at any of Cullor's houses. Just some pictures posted.

[CivilDiscourse]

I've seen or heard a few sob stories like this about Cullors' response to criticism.

She choked up as she described having to hire "security" after the negative backlash.

"I spent the last week with security and, yeah, these articles have shown the homes that I live in and that my family lives in," she said, sobbing briefly.

Meanwhile the group she co-founded led a march to the house the Washington County Attorney Pete Orput, the man responsible for former police officer Kimberly Potter being charged with second-degree manslaughter charges in the shooting of Chauvin.

So she thinks it is wrong for pictures of her various houses to be published because she felt intimidated and a need to hire security. I wonder how she would have felt if her house was besieged by protesters. How intimidated and scared would she have felt then. You know. Just what her group did to Orput and his family.

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[Left hat]
Thats entirely different. You are ignoring history. A bunch of people protesting outside of a black person's house reeks of lynching. You must have white sheets to make that sort of comparison.
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