‘Defund the Police’ Activist Misappropriated $75,000 in Donations, DC Attorney General Alleges
26th November 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 Cancún 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.