It was just four years ago that Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac cast member Wendy Osefo was running around blabbing to whoever would listen about how “unfair” it was that “black parents have to break their children’s innocence.” By which she meant exposing them to the myth that black men are gleefully gunned down by racist cops. Now Osefo has been charged with lying to police and attempting insurance fraud.

I wonder how “unfair” it is when parents have to explain to their kids they’re under arrest for allegedly trying to steal nearly half a million dollars.

The news of Osefo and her husband Eddie’s arrest broke on Friday, with police saying that the two lied about a break-in at their home last year, at which time they said jewelry and other luxury items were stolen while their family was away on vacation. The total of the stuff exceeded $200,000, according to police, and emails from Eddie to Wendy showed him asking about more items to add to their theft insurance claim. “I’m trying to get the total to exceed $423,000 which is our policy maximum,” Eddie said, according to police.

In the official investigation, prosecutors said they found several goods claimed as stolen had simply been returned for refunds. Officers recovered multiple items from the Osefo home that were reported stolen and alleged that the couple are “burdened by substantial debt,” apparently suggesting that it was an insurance scheme aimed at paying off some bills. They also said there was little or no evidence of any kind of break-in. A home alarm system was armed at the time the Osefos claimed there was a burglary, but it never went off to indicate an intruder, prosecutors said.

A representative for the Osefos said in a statement to media that they “look forward to their day in court.” Conspicuously absent was any kind of denial or assertion of innocence. That’s interesting!

Osefo, for the uninitiated, has largely promoted herself on her show as a “political commentator,” who pretty much exclusively talks about “systemic racism,” “disadvantaged communities,” and every other Democrat buzzword that makes normal people gag. How telling that she’s also, perhaps, a fraudster.

Coincidentally, at about the same time that the Osefo affair broke out, the superintendent for a public school district in Atlanta was placed on leave and indicted for, according to federal prosecutors, steering school system contracts to friends and then receiving tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks. And as any of this relates to Wendy Osefo, The New York Times provided some context as to what made the superintendent, Devon Horton, of national interest:

Dr. Horton joined the Evanston school district, District 65, in the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic and the country’s racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd. He was vocal in his push to promote racial equity and close achievement gaps in the district, which is 40 percent white, 22 percent Black and 22 percent Hispanic, with wide gaps in test scores.

In 2020, he made waves by announcing that students from marginalized backgrounds would get priority for in-person learning.

In short, both Osefo and Horton appear to be the typical con artists who have been found time and time again to lead the Black Lives Matter movement and preach its toxic gospel — the ones who swindle innocent people out of every cent they can to afford themselves lavish lifestyles, expensive homes, and private jet travel. They do it all while simultaneously claiming themselves to be victims and passively aggressively intimidating would-be critics with the ever-present threat of branding them racists.

Consider Osefo and Horton to be helpful reminders that BLM is a movement of grifters.

Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of "Traitors: The Democrat Party’s Collapse into Anti-American Filth."