Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter (BLM) on Thursday for purchasing an overpriced mansion using donation money.
Rokita’s suit is seeking to investigate the group’s finances and use of donations after the founders bought a mansion in Los Angeles, California costing nearly $6 million.
“I filed a lawsuit against the Black Lives Matter organization to protect Hoosiers from this house of cards,” Rokita tweeted. “BLM has concerning patterns of behavior [and] we’ll do what it takes to get to the bottom of it on behalf of generous Hoosiers who have donated to them.”
The BLM organization has come under scrutiny over capitalizing on George Floyd’s death in 2020 and its handling of donation money.
The lawsuit demands the organization respond to investigative demands filed in February of this year.
“The Office of the Attorney General filed a Petition to Enforce a Civil Investigative Demand, which seeks an order requiring BLM to respond to a Civil Investigative Demand issued to the organization in February 2022,” the attorney general’s office clarified.
BLM bought the California mansion from a real estate developer who works for the movement’s founder, Patrisse Cullors, and her wife, paying him $5.8 million. The developer also bought the same property for only $3.1 million just days earlier, according to The Daily Mail.
This isn’t the first time that BLM exhibited a typical lack of morals and enjoyed lives of luxury at the cost of the general public.
In February of last year, the group said it raised over $90 million in donations the previous year, with $60 million still on hand. However, they have not disclosed where the remaining money went.
Cullors denied the accusations and said in a statement that she never set foot on the property, but failed to explain the whopping price tag.
“I do not own the property, have never lived there and made that clear to the reporter,” she said. ‘I want to be clear: While I will always see myself as a part of the BLM community, I am no longer in leadership and I am not a part of any decision-making processes within the foundation.”
She also insisted that BLM has never misappropriated funds, even though their recent purchase of a lavish house says otherwise.
