The founder of a radical anti-police nonprofit has been accused of using company funds to purchase designer apparel and rent out luxurious mansions around the world for personal travel.
Brandon D. Anderson, 39, who founded an app intended to replace law enforcement officers with average citizens called Raheem AI, is alleged to have spent at least $250,000 on lavish goods in 2021 which were not approved by the organization, the New York Times reported.
After employees had gone unpaid, they were left with a dilemma: notify law enforcement about the founder of their company – which has a goal of abolishing the police – or handle it internally. They ultimately decided to contact the District of Columbia’s attorney general after realizing their wages were not going to be recovered due to Anderson allegedly funneling the money to himself. The DC attorney general is now considering launching a criminal probe into the founder’s fraud allegations.
Anderson committed “the perfect crime,” claimed Nancy Mariano, a former software engineer at the nonprofit, who explained that she was skeptical about the company notifying police because Anderson “is a black person” and “the way that police treat masculine-presenting black people is terrible.”
“Even if Brandon committed a crime, I don’t want Brandon to die, so I don’t want to put Brandon in that position,” said Mariano. However, not all employees felt the same. […]
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