Overview
- An indictment returned Dec. 3 and unsealed Thursday charges Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson with 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering, and she made an initial court appearance.
- Prosecutors allege that from June 2020 through October 2025 she deposited at least $3.15 million in returned bail checks into her personal accounts rather than the organization’s accounts.
- Charging documents say the money paid for trips to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, tens of thousands in retail purchases, more than $50,000 in food deliveries, a vehicle, and six Oklahoma City properties.
- BLM OKC raised more than $5.6 million beginning in 2020 via grants from national bail funds routed through the Alliance for Global Justice, which imposed 501(c)(3) restrictions; prosecutors say Dickerson also filed two false annual reports to the sponsor.
- The FBI Oklahoma City Field Office and IRS-Criminal Investigation led the probe; if convicted, she faces up to 20 years per wire-fraud count and up to 10 years per money-laundering count, and she remains presumed innocent.