Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta, in a letter sent in late August, demanded that Black Lives Matter Grassroots file tax disclosures for 2022 that will reveal what it did with millions in unaccounted-for charitable funds.
If Black Lives Matter Grassroots declines to comply with Bonta’s request, its nonprofit status will be revoked and it will be taxed as if it were a corporation, according to the letter. The issue revolves around Black Lives Matter Grassroots’ failure to file 2022 disclosure documents even though a large liberal charity called the Tides Foundation had reportedly given it $8.7 million at that point, making it unclear to the public how those funds were used.
Black Lives Matter Grassroots leader Melina Abdullah kept the expenditures “intentionally private” by declining to file tax disclosures because “she didn’t want folks to know how the money was moving,” Black Lives Matter sources told the Washington Free Beacon in May.
While the group didn’t file a tax return in 2022, it did file a document containing inconsistencies in 2023. […]
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