(WORLD NEWS) When Is a “Charity” Really Something Bad?

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IN-Q-TEL is the CIA’s domestic services group. They are a registered “Charity” but they got caught with many tons of cocaine on their airplanes, paid Google and Facebook to spy on citizens, run Elon Musk’s and the Chamber of Commerce dirty tricks and other interesting things. So… are they really a “charity organization”?

Here’s another “charity”:

Inside the luxurious $6million LA mansion – complete with a pool, outdoor fireplace, ‘butler’s pantry,’ and film studio – ‘purchased with Black Lives Matter donations’ FOUR MONTHS before charity ‘disclosed its finances’ for the first time

• DailyMail.com has obtained property photos of the luxurious seven-bedroom, 6,500-square foot $6million Los Angeles mansion reportedly bought with Black Lives Matter donations 
• Pictures inside the grand home reveal colonial features, a pool, tree-lined yard, outdoor fireplace, ‘butler’s pantry’, its own mini filming studio, and two separate buildings along with the main house
• The home, dubbed ‘Campus’ by BLM executives, was purchased by Dyane Pascall in October 2020 with cash, according to a New York Magazine report published Monday 
• Emails show the firm wanted to keep the purchase secret, despite filming a video on the home’s patio in May 
• The news comes as the foundation faces federal scrutiny for alleged misuse of donated funds – and comes on heels of criticism of co-founder Patrisse Cullors 
• Cullors, 38, came under fire last year for a slew of high-profile property purchases. She resigned last May after facing backlash from critics and supporters 
• Earlier this year it was revealed the charity is also now in delinquent status for failing to file its annual financial reports and hasn’t had anyone in charge of its finances since Cullors resigned

By Josh Boswell

The property listing says the mansion’s guests have included Hollywood royalty such as Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.

Other luxury features boasted by the mansion’s listing are a ‘mud room, custom wrought iron staircase, and rejuvenation light fixtures, handles and other details.’ 

The home is also designed with opulent finishes such as a ‘soapstone center island,’ Carrara marble and Calacatta gold stone featured in bathrooms, three fireplaces – ‘one imported from Italy and one with handmade Arto Cement Tile Hearth.’

The home, dubbed ‘Campus’ by BLM executives, was purchased by Dyane Pascall in October 2020 with cash, according to reports. 

Pascall is the financial manager for Janaya and Patrisse Consulting LLC, a private consulting firm for disgraced BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her spouse Janaya Khan.

Soon after the purchase, the home was transferred to a company established in the opaque tax haven state of Delaware by law firm Perkins Coie, leaving its current ownership shrouded in mystery. 

The purchase came days after BLM’s official charity Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) received an injection of $66.5million in donations that had flooded in from around the globe by people devastated by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman.

Redfin now estimates the property is worth $5,992,289.

News of the property purchase comes amid heightened scrutiny of the foundation, which famously grew into one of the largest international movements against racial injustice in mid-2020 and has since faced calls for financial transparency. 

BLM attempted to quell speculation of suspected misappropriation in early 2021 by releasing a financial report that showed it had taken in $90million throughout 2020, distributed grants to its partner organizations, and had $60million remaining in its accounts. 

Earlier this year, DailyMail.com also revealed the group blew $12.7million of those funds on ‘professional fees’, according to the charity revenue and expenses statements that were included in its application for tax-exempt, nonprofit status in August 2020. 

However, neither of those reports included records of the $6million property purchase made months earlier. 

News of the real estate acquisition was first reported by New York Magazine on Monday as the organization allegedly hoped to keep the house’s existence a secret – despite three of its former leaders reportedly filming a series of videos dining and drinking champagne outside the estate last spring. 

Documents and internal communications reportedly reveal the luxury property was handled in ways that ‘blur boundaries’ between charitable use and those that would benefit some of the organization’s leaders – including Cullors, who shared video in June of her enjoying a ritzy brunch outside the estate with fellow officials Alicia Garza and Melina Abdullah, who have both since left the organization.   

When contacted by New York Magazine for comment regarding the property’s existence, officials seemingly attempted to make the story go away. The magazine said it learned of the estate through a source from within the firm, who had access to the BLM brass’ internal emails.

After receiving the email asking for comment, BLM officials reportedly circulated an internal memo with possible responses to the outlet’s query concerning the alleged purchase, ranging from ‘Can we kill the story?’ to, ‘Our angle – needs to be to deflate ownership of the property,’ the magazine reported. 

The memo reportedly included bullet points that outlined how ‘Campus is part of cultural arm of the org – potentially as an ‘influencer house,’ where abolition+ based content is produced by artists & creatives.’ 

Another bullet point was reportedly titled ‘Accounting/990 modifications,’ according to the paper, and read in part: ‘Need to first make sure it’s legally okay to use as we plan to use it.’ 

The memo goes on to designate the property as a ‘safehouse,’ for leaders whose safety has been threatened. 

The internal bulletin, however, notes: ‘Holes in security story: Use in public YT videos,’ seemingly referencing Cullors’ public video reportedly outside the supposed secret hideout, in which the three officials casually sipped champagne on the property’s patio over an ornate table spread and addressed controversy over Cullors’ now notorious property purchases and alleged misuse of foundation funds.

‘For me, the hardest moments have been the right-wing-media machine just leveraging literally all its weight against me, against our movement, against BLM the organization,’ Cullors says in the 17-minute clip, posted shortly before her resignation following backlash over her reported purchase of four lavish homes for $3.2 million.

‘I’m some weeks out now from a lot of the noise, so I have more perspective, right? While I was in it, I was in survival mode,’ Cullors said, referring to an April 2021 article in the New York Post that detailed the purchases.

‘I think they’ve attempted to cancel us, but they have not been successful in canceling us,’ Abdullah says at another point in the recorded discussion meant to address the 1-year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, but quickly became a defense of Cullors’ real estate ventures.

‘They’ve attempted to say – and I’m just gonna say it – ‘She bought some damn houses. We gonna cancel her.” Garza said, in a pointed comment addressing Cullors’ critics. 

She too left the group shortly after the roundtable, saying that neither ‘right-wing attacks’ nor criticism from Black organizers angered by disproportionate gaps between the fortunes of the movement’s most lauded figures and on-the-ground activists, were reasons for her departure.

With that said, the idea the house simultaneously serves as a secret refuge for embattled BLMers and also a place for broadcasting content online seem to conflict with one another, being fundamentally opposed in nature.

In an emailed statement to New York Magazine April 1, Shalomyah Bowers, a BLM board member, asserted that the foundation had bought Campus ‘with the intention for it to serve as housing and studio space for recipients of the Black Joy Creators Fellowship.’ 

The fellowship, which ‘provides recording resources and dedicated space for Black creatives to launch content online and in real life focused on abolition, healing justice, urban agriculture and food justice, pop culture, activism, and politics,’ was announced on April 2, the following morning.

Bowers also maintained in the statement that BLMGNF had ‘always planned’ to disclose the house in legal filings this May.

The board member also doubled down on declarations that the estate does not serve as anyone’s personal residence, and that purchasing property via private LLCs is customary in real estate for legal reasons. 

The statement did not address why the supposed creative ‘influencer’ space, relatively little content – aside from the aforementioned video, in which none of the former BLM officials addressed the property behind them – has been produced there over the course of 17 months. 

The foundation’s decision to keep mum on the house until now, when confronted, is unusual for a supposedly charitable – and tax-exempt – organization such as BLM, and it is one that leaves the organization open to further critique and scrutiny, nonprofit expert Jacob Harold told New York Magazine Monday. 

‘That’s a very legitimate critique,’ said Harold, a former CEO of GuideStar and the co-founder of Candid, an information service that reports on nonprofits, said of the reported purchase.

The revelation could negatively affect further donations to the foundation, Harold added, as it continues to face scrutiny over dodgy finances.

In February, foundation leaders were hit with a notice from the Department of Justice asserting that members could be held personally liable if they fail to disclose financial records about the charity’s $60million in donations within the next 60 days.  

The DOJ requested a copy of BLM’s annual registration renewal fee report and its 2020 IRS tax forms within two months time. 

If the organization fails to submit these documents, its charity exemption status will be revoked. It could also face fines for ‘each month or partial month for which the report(s) are delinquent.’

The letter, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, threatened that ‘directors, trustees, officers and return preparers’ would be ‘personally liable’ for ‘all penalties, interest and other costs incurred to restore exempt status’. The DOJ noted that ‘charitable assets cannot be used to pay these avoidable costs’.

Day earlier, it had been revealed that BLM has not had designated anyone as in charge of its finances after co-founder Cullors’ resignation.

It is not clear who is currently in charge of the activist group after all three of its founding members – Cullors, Garza and Opal Tometi  – left the organization.