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The highest-paid worker of the nationwide Black Lives Matter group is Paul Cullors, the brother of the charity’s embattled co-founder Patrisse Cullors, new filings reveal.

Paul Cullors is the pinnacle of safety at BLM’s $6 million Los Angeles mansion, secretly bought with donor funds in October 2020. Black Lives Matter International Community Basis recognized Paul Cullors and BLM Operations Director Raymond Howard as the 2 workers with the “biggest compensation” in its Washington state charity registration software filed on Might 11.

BLM didn’t disclose within the submitting how a lot it paid Paul Cullors, and it isn’t clear if he was paid extra, much less, or the identical as Howard. BLM has not but launched its IRS Kind 990 monetary disclosure that will include that info.

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Paul Cullors’s inclusion on the record of BLM’s highest-compensated workers signifies he’s paid greater than dozens of different individuals who reportedly work with the charity. He’s additionally one among three identified members of Patrisse Cullors’s instant household to have labored at BLM’s Los Angeles mansion.

“Whereas my brother is the pinnacle of safety, and my mother and sister did work on the property, there are additionally dozens of people that work within the group which are black of us and are doing wonderful work,” Cullors instructed the G3 Field Information on Might 9.

Paul Cullors additionally supplies safety companies for Patrisse Cullors’s private properties, in accordance with encrypted group chat communications obtained by New York journal. The chats confirmed Patrisse Cullors paid her brother together with her personal private funds for the work he carried out at her private residences, the journal added.

Nonetheless, the revelation that Patrisse Cullors’s brother recognized as one among BLM’s two highest-compensated workers raises issues that she could have used the charity, which claimed to have obtained $90 million in 2020, to subsidize her private safety prices, mentioned Tom Anderson, the director of the Authorities Integrity Undertaking on the Nationwide Authorized and Coverage Middle watchdog group.

“Reportedly accessed Sign messaging exchanges present Paul Cullors supervises bodily safety in any respect of Patrisse’s personal residences. That, coupled with this new revelation that Paul is without doubt one of the highest-paid workers of Black Lives Matter International Community, is extra proof Patrisse could have crossed the road on self-dealing,” Anderson instructed the Washington Examiner.

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BLM might be required to report in its IRS Kind 990 monetary disclosure the names of the consulting corporations it paid over $100,000 between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.

Patrisse Cullors and the 2 different people who sat together with her on BLM’s board of administrators earlier than she resigned in Might 2021 had been intently tied to or managed consulting corporations that claimed to do enterprise with BLM.

The daddy of Patrisse Cullors’s solely youngster, Damon Turner, runs Lure Heals, an artwork firm that was previously BLM’s “lead developer of the artwork & cultural efforts,” enterprise information present. BLM’s political motion committee additionally paid Lure Heals $150,000 to co-produce an election night time livestream in November 2020 mired with technical issues that specialists mentioned ought to have price a fraction of the value to supply.

Patrisse Cullors herself owns a consulting agency known as Janaya and Patrisse Consulting, by which she obtained funds upward of $20,000 a month in 2019 from Reform LA Jails, a Los Angeles-based jail reform group Cullors used to steer.

Howard, the BLM operations director who sat on the charity’s board in 2020 and 2021, used to state on his LinkedIn account that he was the finance and operations supervisor of New Impression Companions, a Dayton, Ohio-based consulting agency owned by his sister. An internet site for New Impression Companions additionally named BLM as one among its shoppers, however the reference was faraway from the location in late January after the Washington Examiner requested BLM about its relationship with the agency.

The third BLM board member, Shalomyah Bowers, runs a consulting agency known as Bowers Consulting, which lists BLM as a shopper on its web site. Bowers has been the treasurer for quite a few organizations run by Cullors, together with Reform LA Jails and BLM PAC. He nonetheless sits on BLM’s board, in accordance with the charity’s current filings submitted to Oklahoma, Florida, and Washington.

Patrisse Cullors and Howard are not on BLM’s board, in accordance with BLM’s newest filings. They had been changed by Cicely Homosexual and D’Zhane Parker, two activists with shut ties to Patrisse Cullors.

BLM’s Florida registration affords clues to what the group could disclose in its upcoming Kind 990 submitting.

The charity mentioned it obtained $79,644,709 within the “instantly previous fiscal 12 months,” which seems to be in reference to the time-frame from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.

BLM additionally disclosed only one main program accomplishment in its Florida registration: “Creating area for black creativeness and innovation and centering black pleasure.”

Scott Walter, the president of the conservative Capital Analysis Middle, beforehand mentioned BLM’s sole program accomplishment appears like a reference to its $6 million Los Angeles mansion.

“That phrase appears like only a fancy strategy to say, ‘We purchased mansions for events and forgettable YouTube movies,'” Walter beforehand instructed the Washington Examiner.

BLM didn’t return a request for remark.

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