George Floyd (left) in a photo provided by attorney Ben Crump, Sir Maejor Page (right) speaks to demonstrators during a march along Reynolds Road the month after George Floyd’s death (Photo by Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire) (Icon Sportswire via AP Images)
An Ohio jury convicted a disgraced 35-year-old Black Lives Matter activist of wire fraud and money laundering crimes connected to his false promises to Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta (BLMGA) donors on Facebook that the funds would be used to “fight for” George Floyd.
Sir Maejor Page, aka Tyree Conyers-Page, was convicted of each of the four charges he faced, a federal jury verdict sheet obtained by Law&Crime shows. Those offenses included wire fraud, two counts of money laundering, and concealment of money laundering.
When Page was indicted in March 2021, the feds accused the repeat police impersonator of using the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars based on the lie that those funds were exclusively for the “movement” and to “fight for justice.”
Instead, as the criminal complaint alleged in detail, Page spent wildly on himself while donors of more than $450,000 had no idea — since Facebook still listed BLMGA as a nonprofit — that his group’s “tax-exempt status as a charity” had been revoked by the IRS in May 2019.
The complaint said that Page used the donations to fund anything from tailored suits, a doorbell camera, or furniture store and Walmart shopping sprees. But the purchase of a home in Ohio through a wire transfer of BLMGA funds was the “largest” identified offense:
PAGE spent the largest sum of this donation money on the purchase of a personal residence located in Toledo, Ohio. On August 27, 2020, the FBI queried the Lucas County Auditor’s Office website which showed Hi-Frequency Ohio (HFO) purchased a property located on Glenwood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio and a vacant lot directly behind it located on Maplewood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. The total purchase price for both properties was approximately $112,000. The closing statement for the property purchase showed a balance due from HFO of $108,499.83. This balance was paid by a single wire transfer from the BLMGA bank account on August 21, 2020 to Greater Metropolitan Title.
Prosecutors alleged that Page attempted to “conceal” the property purchase by hiding that he was the buyer through a proposed nondisclosure agreement.
“Defendant attempted to conceal the purchase of the real property by titling the property to ‘Hi Frequency Ohio’ and requested that the seller’s realtor enter into a nondisclosure agreement, thereby preventing the seller from disclosing the Defendant as the true buyer and disclosing that he used BLMGA’s funds,” court documents said.
Investigators said that while BLMGA’s tax-exempt status lapsed because Page did not file the necessary paperwork three years in a row, the group was also administratively dissolved by the state of Georgia in Aug. 2019. Even so, Page falsely represented to online donors that BLMGA was still a recognized nonprofit — and he said nothing to Facebook about the status change either, prosecutors said.
As of Tuesday, the court docket shows that a forfeiture hearing was scheduled for the morning of April 22. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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