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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The District of Columbia's attorney general is suing a Defund the Police activist for misappropriating $75,000 in charity funds for mansion rentals, a Cancn trip, and designer clothes. Brandon Anderson, the leader of an anti-police D.C. nonprofit called Raheem AI, "misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI board of directors let him get away with it," Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D.), whose office regulates nonprofits in the district, said in a Monday statement. Schwalb also sued Raheem AI, seeking to shut down the nonprofit entirely. The attorney general called for Anderson to be barred from leading any other D.C. nonprofit and demanded that Anderson or Raheem AI repay the $75,000, according to the New York Times. "My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law," Schwalb said.

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Anderson, who embraced the "Defund the Police" slogan in 2020, is a longtime advocate for abolishing law enforcement, telling Vice in 2022 that police "reform" doesn't go far enough. At the time, Raheem AI claimed to be testing an app that "aims to replace 911 emergency calls" and eventually replace police altogether, Vice reported. While Raheem raised more than $4.3 million from progressive groups, particularly after George Floyd's death in 2020, its "high-tech projects fizzled," according to the Times.

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... The District of Columbia's attorney general is suing a Defund the Police activist for misappropriating $75,000 in charity funds for mansion rentals ...

Good. Throw the book at him.

Reminds me of what happened with the Wounded Warrior charity back in 2015-2017. Fortunately that charity turned itself around excellently.


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-26 12:48 PM | Reply

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