Is the Black Lives Matter Organization a Money Laundering Scheme?

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Is the Black Lives Matter Organization a Money Laundering Scheme?
Posted on 8/5/2020 at 12:29:51 by Will Croom

Just yesterday, the Managing director for the Black Lives Matter organization� Kailee Scales � conducted a disastrous Reddit AMA, during which she was hard pressed to disclose where and how exactly the money received from donations to BLM was being used. Interestingly, she refused to answer said questions, and the ensuing controversy was enough for moderators to lock the thread.
The suspicions didn�t die there, however. And the internet got to work to find out what exactly was going on behind the scenes at BLM. It didn�t take long to figure it out.
As one Reddit user pointed out, Black Lives Matter uses ActBlue as their electronic platform for donations. ActBlue is a nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004 that enables Democrats, progressive groups, and nonprofits to raise money on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising software.
This is all well and good. Even the Republicans have their own electronic platforms for donations and fundraising.
However, if we read the fine print of ActBlue�s policy, we find out a very interesting detail:
Re-designation of Contributions
In the event that a campaign or committee (a) fails for 60 days to cash a check from ActBlue which includes your contribution (after ActBlue makes repeated attempts to work with the campaign to ensure all checks are cashed), or (b) affirmatively refuses a contribution earmarked through ActBlue, your contribution will be re-designated as a contribution to ActBlue. Contributions to social welfare organizations which are similarly not cashed or are affirmatively refused will be kept by ActBlue and used generally to support its social welfare activities.
Contributions to charitable organizations which are not cashed or affirmatively refused will got to ActBlue Charities.
Considering that Black Lives Matter is receiving millions of dollars worth of donations from corporations and from people all around the globe, this seems to suggest that the organization is merely a front to launder campaign funds to Progressive grassroots campaigns, as well as Democrat campaign fundraising.
If this is in fact what is going on, all they have to do is let the 60-day period elapse, and those donations would be free for ActBlue to handle as they see fit. The money would then theoretically end up in the coffers of said Democrat and Progressive campaigns.
This is extremely unethical, especially when taking into account FEC (Federal Election Commission) regulations on who can, and who can�t donate money to American political campaigns. These regulations explicitly detail � amongst other things � that donations from non-US citizens and Corporations to political campaigns are disallowed.
This would come as no surprise, considering that for this electoral season, the DNC has been posting lackluster fundraising numbers as of late-2019, while the GOP has gained a clear financial advantage � especially with small donors � , even going as far as breaking a fundraising record in October of last year.
While many corporations and citizens have donated money to civil rights institutions across the US � such as the ACLU and NAACP � , they�ve done so in the name of the Black Lives Matter mantra and hashtags, not necessarily directly to the BLM organization.
For example, Uber donated $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative and the Center for Policing Equity � both very transparent in regards to their allocation of funds � . While this donation was not done directly to Black Lives Matter, it was announced under the motto of Black Lives Matter.
At the time of writing, no member of the Black Lives Matter organization has explicitly disclosed where and how they allocate their donation money.

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