The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the national Black Lives Matter organization over allegations that the group’s leadership defrauded donors.

Federal agents are probing the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation after years of financial scandals and infighting at the group. Officials have issued multiple subpoenas and carried out at least one search warrant against the foundation and other leftist groups in recent weeks, according to the Associated Press.

The investigation began under former President Joe Biden, according to the AP.

In a statement, the foundation denied that it is the subject of a “federal criminal investigation.”

“We remain committed to full transparency, accountability, and the responsible stewardship of resources dedicated to building a better future for Black communities,” the foundation told the AP.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles is leading the investigation into the foundation, according to Fox News.

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The Black Lives Matter foundation received a cascade of donations following the death of George Floyd, a chronic drug abuser and repeat criminal, during his arrest in Minneapolis in 2020. The foundation received an estimated $90 million in contributions following Floyd’s death, which kicked off nationwide protests and riots over alleged systemic racism within law enforcement that resulted in over $1 billion in damages.

No criminal charges have been filed in the investigation into the foundation or related groups. The investigation itself is part of the Trump administration’s effort to probe potential illegal activity within leftist organizations and identify the financial interests behind violent riots spurred by political agendas, according to National Review.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been rocked by allegations of scandal and the abuse of donor funds in recent years.

In 2022, the national foundation hemorrhaged funds while paying out substantial paychecks to its former executive director Patrisse Cullors and a number of her family members and friends. Part of the $90 million trove the national foundation raised in the immediate aftermath of Floyd’s death went toward luxury homes in Los Angeles and Toronto together worth about $12 million.

Another nearly $11 million was paid out for contracts, many of which went to companies run by Cullors’ family and friends. For instance, Cullors’ brother, a graffiti artist, received $1.6 million between two companies for providing “professional security services” for Black Lives Matter.

The national group and its offshoots, particularly Black Lives Matter Grassroots, have suffered from infighting within the Black Lives Matter movement over millions of dollars-worth of donations that have seemed to go missing.

Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-OR) insisted on Thursday that the Republicans had included a “poison pill” in the Continuing Resolution that would reopen the government — but when pressed, she appeared to be unable to identify what exactly that might be.

Bynum, appearing on C-SPAN as the shutdown hit the 30-day mark, claimed that Republicans were trying to pull something over on the American people and that the CR — which has been widely regarded as “clean,” with no changes to anything — necessarily included hidden agenda items.

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Democrat Rep. Janelle Bynum: “Any bill that Republicans have put forth, there’s always been a poison pill.”

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“They did have a clean CR vote on September 19th in the House,” the C-SPAN host pointed out. “Did you vote for it?”

“I disagree with your characterization and want to make sure that we’re very clear about [what] Republicans have been doing,” Bynum protested. “Any bill that they’ve put forth, they’ve always had some extra stuff to it, there’s always been a poison pill to it, so I disagree with your characterization.”

The C-SPAN anchor pushed back: “What were the poison pills in the clean CR — the continuing resolution, you say it’s not clean — that was voted on in the House in mid-September?”

Bynum ignored the question entirely, and leaned into the camera to make her next point.

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”Here’s what’s important,” she said. “I think what you’re trying to do is shift the responsibility to Democrats.”

Just hours earlier, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had gotten himself into a similarly uncomfortable exchange on CNN.

After he claimed on Wednesday that Republican leaders had not been willing to have a conversation with Democrats in order to bring the shutdown to an end, anchor Kaitlan Collins confronted him with his own admission that he’d spoken to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) earlier that day.

Over the next two minutes, Jeffries admitted that he had spoken to Johnson — and that Johnson had been the one to reach out to him rather than vice versa. He also admitted that although nothing was resolved, the pair had discussed things “in the ballpark” of the shutdown.