BLM Activist Pleading Guilty In Case Involving Stolen Taxpayer Money Meant To Help Low-Income Families
A Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist has taken a plea deal in a Fargo, North Dakota, case in which she and her husband are accused of diverting taxpayer money meant for her nonprofit to family members, according to local…
A Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist has taken a plea deal in a Fargo, North Dakota, case in which she and her husband are accused of diverting taxpayer money meant for her nonprofit to family members, according to local news outlet InForum.
Faith Shields-Dixon, founder of the Faith4Hope Scholarship Fund, will plead guilty to three felony counts of theft out of five, InForum reported, citing a plea agreement she signed Oct. 1. The deal follows years of allegations of financial mismanagement by BLM leaders after their organizations received lavish funding.
Prosecutors accused Shields-Dixon of accepting $350,000 in grant money for the Faith4Hope Scholarship Fund, which was meant to assist low-income families, and directing $124,000 of it to businesses run by family members. Shields-Dixon told InForum that her sentencing hearing will reveal what precise illegal actions she will confess to.
“There, my attorneys and I will explain exactly what did and did not happen with respect to the grant funding I accepted from the city of Fargo and state of North Dakota,” Shields-Dixon said in a statement. “Then — and only then — should anyone draw any conclusions about me, my family and the decisions I made in this matter.”
An attorney for Shields-Dixon did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Her husband, Charles, faces his own felony trial for the case in November, according to InForum.