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A Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader has been sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of stealing donation money to fund his lavish lifestyle.
Sir Maejor Page, real name is Tyree Conyers-Page, was convicted of money laundering and wire fraud charges involving BLM donations, according to local outlet WGTV.
The Ohio-based activist was using donations to the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta (BLMGA) Facebook page for personal expenses, according to WGTV.
Like many who donated to BLM, people thought they were donating to help fight racism.
However, black communities never received a dollar of the money and it was all used to pay for Page’s extravagant lifestyle.
Page was found guilty on all charges on April 12, as Slay News reported at the time.
Judge Jeffrey Helmick sentenced him to serve 42 months in prison on Thursday, court documents show.
The activist was arrested by the FBI in Toledo, Ohio, on September 25, 2020.
He was charged after it was discovered he had misappropriated $200,000 in BLM donations by spending the money on luxury personal items.
There were other incidents around the country in this period involving black suspects killed by police and a narrative spread — with help from the news media — that innocent black citizens were being exterminated in great numbers by police. The truth was a statistically tiny number of black men killed by police, and always either in commission of a crime or violently resisting arrest. The hustle is that they should be excused for all that, even venerated and celebrated with statues, tributes, and payouts. Why everybody else goes along with it has been an abiding cultural mystery of our time. It probably just boils down to cowardice. In fact, cowardice doubled because we are too cowardly to even admit that we are cowards. ...
It was the decision out of Bragg’s office to keep Jordan Neely on the street despite the danger he posed to the public, as denoted in his arrest record. Daniel Penny stepped in where law enforcement failed. Jordan Neely was not dehumanized by the system. He dehumanized himself and his death was the result of his own recklessness. He wasn’t anyone else’s victim. He doesn’t deserve a statue. The father who abandoned him does not deserve a multi-million-dollar payout from New York taxpayers. ...
The Penny case, I’m sure you realize, is not the only bit of professional mischief that Alvin Bragg has engaged in. A case might be made that he has systematically tried to deprive non-black citizens of their civil rights. The Department of Justice in a new administration ought to contemplate prosecuting him for it.
A rapper is singing a politically incorrect tune as he says Black Lives Matter is “literally a scam.”
The singer is Lil Yachty who made the comment during an appearance on a cooking show with Quenlin Blackwell.
During the pair’s kitchen discussion, Blackwell asked Lil Yachty: “You spent $100,000 on a trip to Disney once. How much have you spent on charitable causes this year?”
“It’s just blurry, I’ve been doing so much,” the rapper said.
“BLM?” asked Blackwell.
“BLM is a scam,” the rapper said matter of factly.
“BLM was, it was literally a scam. They had bought mansions. You probably wouldn’t know anything about it because you don’t care about black people.”
Boston activist Monica Cannon-Grant to plead guilty in federal fraud case
... Behind the scenes, however, prosecutors allege Cannon-Grant and her late husband, Clark Grant, were defrauding people who donated to the nonprofit and instead spending the funds on hotels, gas, restaurants, food deliveries, nail salons, and travel. ...
The initial indictment accused Cannon-Grant and her husband not only of defrauding donors, but lying on a mortgage application and illegally collecting roughly $100,000 in unemployment benefits.
“Unemployment caught my ass!” Cannon-Grant allegedly texted her husband in March 2021. “Asked me to provide documents by June unless I’ll have to pay it all back.”
Additional fraud charges brought in 2023 accused the couple of leveraging their nonprofit for pandemic assistance and lying to obtain rent relief funds intended for Boston residents facing housing insecurity.
Cannon-Grant is charged in a 27-count superseding indictment with charges including conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements on a mortgage application, and tax violations.
She could face decades in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines if convicted.
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