The head of a Black Lives Matter group in Oklahoma City faces 25 counts of wire fraud and money laundering based on a federal grand jury indictment, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Authorities said Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, who served as executive director of the group since at least 2016, embezzled funds for her own benefit. She deposited at least several million dollars into personal accounts rather than into the organization's accounts, they said.

The BLM organization, which was not registered as tax exempt, accepted charitable donations through its affiliation with the Alliance for Global Justice, based in Arizona.

The indictment claims that from June 2020 to October 2025, Dickerson moved "at least $3.15 million in returned bail checks into her personal accounts, rather

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