Anti-police activist blew $75K in charity funds for luxury vacation rentals, other personal expenses: AG

An anti-police activistic allegedly "misused charitable donations to money lavish vacations and buying sprees" aft founding a nonprofit aimed astatine improving "transparency and accountability" successful law enforcement, according to prosecutors.

The Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia is present suing Brandon Anderson – the executive manager of Raheem AI – alleging that, since 2021, helium "diverted $75,000 of nonprofit funds for his ain idiosyncratic use." 

The funds reportedly included "spending implicit $40,000 connected a luxury abrogation rental work that allows members to enactment successful high-end mansions and penthouse apartments, $10,000 connected hotels and Airbnb’s for personal travel – including to a Cancun resort, $10,000 connected decorator covering brands, and $5,000 connected exigency veterinary services." 

"Brandon Anderson misused charitable donations to money lavish vacations and buying sprees, and the Raheem AI Board of Directors fto him get distant with it," Attorney General Brian Schwalb said successful a statement. "Not lone did their fiscal abuses interruption cardinal principles of nonprofit governance, but Anderson and Raheem AI failed to wage their [sole District-based] worker the wages they had earned. 

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Brandon Anderson is pictured successful December 2019 successful Oakland, California. (Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

"My bureau volition not let radical to masquerade down noble causes portion violating the law, cheating taxpayers, oregon stealing from their workers," helium added. 

Raheem AI was founded successful 2017 with a extremity to physique a work that would let radical to record complaints against police, according to The New York Times. 

"When you study constabulary connected Raheem.org, we link you to a escaped lawyer, record a ailment against the serviceman and usage your communicative to lobby for policies that defund constabulary and put successful your community," Anderson told BET Networks. 

The nonprofit past focused successful 2021 connected gathering an app that would dispatch alternate archetypal responders – alternatively of constabulary – to radical successful times of need, The New York Times reported. 

The D.C. Attorney General’s Office says Raheem AI does concern arsenic Community Response Works and is a tax-exempt D.C. nonprofit corporation. 

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Brandon Anderson is accused of diverting funds intended for Raheem AI for his ain idiosyncratic use. (Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

"It has solicited donations to ‘equip black, brown, and indigenous assemblage situation responders with the tools, training, connections, and backing they request to supply care,'" the AG's bureau added. 

"Brandon Anderson... served arsenic a committee subordinate and arsenic its Executive Director until April 2024. While Raheem AI’s committee precocious placed Anderson connected permission and ceased operations, neither helium nor the enactment has restored the misused funds oregon compensated their worker for owed wages and damages," the bureau said.

Prosecutors besides allege that Anderson and Raheem AI forced their D.C.-based worker to motion an "illegal noncompete clause." 

The Attorney General's Office says the alleged actions interruption D.C.’s Nonprofit Corporation Act, Wage Payment and Collection Law (WCPL), and Ban connected Noncompete Agreements Act.

"With this lawsuit, OAG is seeking a Court bid to dissolve Raheem AI arsenic a District nonprofit corporation, retrieve misused funds and nonstop them to due charitable purposes, permanently barroom Anderson from serving arsenic an serviceman oregon manager of immoderate District nonprofit, grant Raheem AI’s Deputy Director the wages she is owed positive damages, and grant penalties to the District for each usurpation of the WCPL," the bureau said.

People locomotion successful Washington, D.C., aft "Defund The Police" was painted connected the thoroughfare adjacent the White House connected June 8, 2020. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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Anderson has denied misusing funds intended for the nonprofit, the New York Times reported.