AG Karl A. Racine wants to prevent the nonprofit's founder from making further withdrawals, alleging « suspicious circumstances surrounding its collapse. »\n\n
to Casa Ruby to run a low-barrier shelter. The shelter, which housed at least 10 young people at the time, shut down in September, but the nonprofit continued to run other programs, including one for victims of crimes and another for asylum seekers, until last month.
Though the nonprofit listed a board of directors on its federal tax filings, the AG’s office found that between 2012 and 2020, the board “apparently never met, and it generated no records or minutes to document any action.”According to the AG’s office, Casa Ruby board members Jack Harrison-Quintana, Meredith Zoltick and Hassan Naveed resigned by emails on Sept. 29, 2021, Feb. 23, 2022, and April 24, 2022, respectively. Any remaining board members are inactive.
In addition to asking the court to freeze Casa Ruby’s accounts, the attorney general’s complaint asks the court to appoint a court-supervised official to stabilize and reform the management of the nonprofit, and seeks an “equitable accounting of records” for the nonprofit’s finances, “as they’ve had no meaningful oversight for years,” Racine’s statement said. Racine also asked the court to impose a trust or other remedy to regain control of any money that Corado may have improperly obtained.
The AG’s office also said Corado has used and continues to spend Casa Ruby’s money without the knowledge or participation of other managers and without oversight from the nonprofit’s board. It said that throughout 2021, Corado used more than $60,000 in Casa Ruby’s funds to pay bills for a charge card she controlled. The AG office found that Corado used Casa Ruby funds to pay for meals and expenses related to transportation to and in El Salvador.
In court filings, the AG office said that it is still investigating “the full extent of the misuse” but that “significant nonprofit funds have been used for Corado to travel to, live in, and eat in El Salvador, as well as to pay charges on a credit card she controlled that were never reviewed or approved by the organization’s Board.”
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