Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on renovations at her fancy California home.
According to the New York Post, Cullors, 39, built a new plunge pool and outdoor sauna, as well as a children’s play area for her young son outside her 2,580-square foot three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Los Angeles’ Topanga Canyon neighborhood.
Public records show that Cullors paid $1.4 million for the Topanga Canyon home in March 2021.
This comes as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) continues to be mired by financial controversies, most recently in the case of BLMGNF leader Shalomyah Bowers, who is being sued for allegedly stealing $10 million from the group.
The lawsuit claims that Bowers led the national group into “multiple investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorney generals, blazing a path of irreparable harm to BLM in less than eighteen months.”
“While BLM leaders and movement workers were on the street risking their lives, Mr. Bowers remained in his cushy offices devising a scheme of fraud and misrepresentation to break the implied-in-fact contract between donors and BLM,” the suit said, which was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last month by a group calling itself Black Lives Matter Grassroots (BLMGR).
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. Cullors, who resigned from the organization in May 2021, went on a real estate buying spree last year.
The Post revealed last year that the BLM co-founder bought a California mansion using donation money in October 2020. It was bought from a real estate developer who worked for Cullors and her wife, paying him $5.8 million.
Following the scandalous report, California Representative Darrell Issa urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation.
“The disturbing information that we are learning is more than enough to warrant an investigation from the DOJ — and doubtless not the end of all there is to know,” Issa said. “This definitely has the suggestion of misappropriation of charitable funds and an abuse of our nonprofit laws.”
