SHOCK: Yet Another BLM Activist Found Guilty of Fraud, Stole $450,000 From Hapless Donors | The Gateway Pundit

Yet one more Black Lives Matter activist has been convicted of defrauding donors out of tons of of hundreds of {dollars}.

In a press release on Thursday, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Northern District of Ohio confirmed that Sir Maejor Web page, 35, of Toledo, was convicted wire fraud and three counts of cash laundering following a six-day trial.

The discharge said:

In keeping with courtroom paperwork and testimony, in 2016, Web page created a Fb web page for “Black Lives Matter of Larger Atlanta” (“BLMGA”) and registered this group as a home non-profit with the Georgia Secretary of State Company’s Division. In 2017, the IRS accredited Web page’s request granting BLMGA tax-exempt standing underneath Part 503(c)(3) of the tax code, however dissolved this standing in 2019.

Web page nonetheless accepted donations after falsely portraying BLMGA to the general public as a professional charity engaged in social justice work, when actually, it was not. As a substitute, Web page used the cash that particular person donors gave to BLMGA not for social justice causes, however quite to purchase objects for his personal private use, akin to a home and furnishings. Web page additionally dedicated money-laundering crimes when he purchased this stuff with the donations that he fraudulently obtained.

United States Lawyer Rebecca C. Lutzko, for the Northern District of Ohio additionally weighed in on the decision: 

The US Lawyer’s Workplace prioritizes the prosecution of white-collar felony conduct, significantly conduct involving misleading schemes that selfishly exploit a charitable donor’s goodwill for private acquire.

The donors to BLMGA thought they had been giving their hard-earned cash to a trigger they believed in. However as an alternative of utilizing it to help that trigger, Web page used it for himself. The jury’s verdict is a warning to each fraudster that if you misrepresent how donations or different cash given to you in belief can be used, you can be prosecuted and punished.

In keeping with The New York Times, Web page stole round $450,000.

The conviction is merely the newest in a litany of comparable instances the place people invovled with the far-left Black Lives Matter group have been caught skimming tons of of hundreds and even thousands and thousands of {dollars} for their very own private acquire.

Final 12 months, even mainstream media organizations acknowledged that solely a 3rd of donations truly went in direction of charitable causes, whereas these on the highest ranks of the motion financed luxurious life with donor funds.