Six homes, Caribbean vacations and a new SUV: How Oklahoma pastor spent $3.15M of embezzled BLM OKC money
Black Lives Matter OKC leader Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson calls herself an “unpaid protester” on her Instagram site — but the Oklahoma City-based Baptist preacher allegedly paid herself with millions in donations meant to help protestors post bail after their arrests, according to a federal indictment.It’s just the latest in a series of financial scandals for the network of BLM civil rights groups, as various leaders across the country have been accused of mis-appropriating some $8.64 million.Dickerson was charged Thursday with fraud and money laundering amid a sprawling federal probe into the troubled civil rights movement.Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc., which took in tens of millions of dollars in corporate donations following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, is also reportedly under investigation.The 52-year-old allegedly embezzled at least $3.15 million in national bail funds and donations to BLM OKC, depositing returned bail checks into her personal accounts.
She spent the money on vacations to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic and to buy six Oklahoma City properties worth more than $500,000, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday.Dickerson also used nearly $42,000 in cash to buy a 2021 Hyundai Palisade and spent tens of thousands of dollars shopping at Nordstrom/Nordstrom Rack, Macy’s and Best Buy, among other retailers, according to the indictment, which also lists thousands spent on grocery and food deliveries from Instacart and DoorDash.She posted social-media photos of her travels to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica on social media, including one of herself at YS Falls in St.Elizabeth, Jamaica, from December 2021, and another from June 2025 in which she is sitting on a Delta plane with a woman she called “auntie.”“You got the good seats … what airline is that?” asked one of her followers.Another post shows Dickerson smiling next to Minnesota Democratic Rep.
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