POLITICS: Black Lives Matter’s billion-dollar grift is STILL spitting up scammers

The Black Lives Matter grift continues to pay dividends for the hucksters and scammers who cozened billions of dollars out of American institutions eager to pay big to avoid condemnation as racists.

The feds have indicted Tashella Dickerson, the director of the Oklahoma City BLM chapter — “franchise” might be a better term — for a brazen $3 million fraud scheme.

Dickerson, who has run that BLM affiliate for a decade, allegedly diverted millions from a BLM bail fund to pay for vacations, cars and properties deeded in her name.

But she’s by no means an anomaly: In fact, it would be unusual to find a BLM branch that didn’t operate as a slush fund for its local leader.

Last year, the DOJ indicted Sir Maejor Page (yes, that’s right), the former director of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, for stealing $450,000 in donations; he allegedly used the cash to buy guns, clothing and a home he tried to register under a false name.

The rot starts from the head. Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the national BLM organization, Black Lives Matter Global Network, made news in 2021 when it emerged that the outfit had purchased a $6 million Los Angeles compound that she was personally using.

It also paid her brother almost a million dollars to provide security for the “Campus,” and employed her mother and sister.

Cullors also purchased several other multimillion-dollar properties, including a ranch in Georgia that comes with an airplane hangar.

The Justice Department has subpoenaed Cullors’ BLMGN as it probes tens of millions that might’ve gone astray.

But these outrages only scratch the surface of a massive shakedown operation that saw tens of billions of dollars pour from corporate and charitable entities into the hands of hundreds of racial activist groups in the years following the George Floyd riots.

The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life’s “BLM Funding Database” tracks the massive flow of funds from major companies to BLM and other racial-justice activist groups and initiatives.

Amazon pledged $170 million, CitiGroup promised $1.1 billion and Nike ponied up $140 million.

Some of this money may have been used responsibly.

But feeding billions to fly-by-night charities with weak governance structures left lots of room for abuse.

The nation’s unlikely to see anything exactly like the racial-blackmail-for-personal-profit schemes of the last half-decade, but the lesson here is a lot larger.

Crusaders who offer a seal of moral approval in exchange for bundles of cash are mostly likely looking out for themselves, not any higher cause.