Posted on 07/19/2022 9:20:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON - An investigation conducted by The Washington Post revealed that a D.C.-based LGBTQ nonprofit has stopped providing critical services in the District.
The company's founder is now missing in action and employees haven't gotten paid.
Ruby Corado launched Casa Ruby in 2012 with a focus on helping members of the LGBTQ community in the District.
The organization provided health, immigration, housing, and other assistance for D.C.'s most vulnerable for nearly a decade. Now, Casa Ruby has ceased all operations, closed its shelters, and employees say they haven't been compensated since May.
Corado, meanwhile, can't be reached.
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According to Casa Ruby's 2020 federal tax filing, the organization had over $4 million in total revenue, and Corado took home a $260,000 salary. Court records also reveal that Casa Ruby is facing at least three separate disputes over unpaid rent.
One landlord complaint shows over one million dollars in unpaid rent and utilities from March 2020 to December 2021.
FOX 5 reached out to attorneys listed as representing Casa Ruby in those landlord/tenant disputes in D.C. superior court, but we have not heard back.
FOX 5 also spoke with two Casa Ruby employees who said they haven't received paychecks since the end of May. Neither had spoken to their boss, Corado, since May. And both said they hoped the mayor's words meant the city was willing to help those left behind who did the work and didn't get paid.
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In January, Corado sold her home in Prince George’s County for $775,000, the paper reports. Employees at Casa Ruby told the Post they hadn’t heard from Corado since May.
However, there might be a hint as to where she could be.
A year ago, Corado announced she was planning to open a Casa Ruby branch in her native El Salvador, a country she fled as a teenager.
Lookes like they got fagged 🤪
The gov’t funding of NGOs is a grift.
As Trump said, they are not sending us their best.
Plus, she's on the Protected Species list.
MAGA Dittoes.
She Be Gone.
This sounds like a whole lot of twaddle to me.
Red House- how appropriate!
bet you if they open the books and investigated, they will find that a lot of donations were stolen
Good work. Hey guys, Libloather ran her down. “:^)
From a DC LGBTQ newspaper:
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2022/07/18/financial-crisis-prompts-employees-to-close-casa-ruby/
Tania Cordova, a Casa Ruby official who has coordinated the group’s LGBTQ immigrant services program, said a failure to pay the rent for Casa Ruby’s offices and rental homes for its transitional housing program made it impossible for the remaining staff of about 10 employees to continue any of the group’s programs.
The Casa Ruby shutdown this week took place nine months after Ruby Corado, the group’s founder and longtime executive director, resigned last October. She announced her resignation less than a week after the D.C. Department of Human Services disclosed it would not renew an annual Casa Ruby grant of what was said to be $850,000 to operate a low-barrier shelter for LGBTQ people.
Casa Ruby staffers have also pointed out that Corado since the time of her announced resignation has spent most of her time in El Salvador operating, among other things, a Casa Ruby she opened in the capital city of San Salvador.
Lol!
Well, she sure got rich off of her scam.
850k of taxpayer money.
Now living the life of Riley
Click on the Fox link and take a gander at those DC babes , heh . Eye bleach in the foyer .
Bowser is well named. Bow-wow-zer.
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