At least five of the eight board members named in the lawsuit filed by the Court-Appointed Receiver for Casa Ruby, Inc. have denied responsibility for the organization’s collapse. The Washington Blade reports that Miguel Rivera, an attorney who is one of the former board members named in the complaint, asserts that the complaint should be...Read More

Eight people who were listed as directors, between 2014 and 2020, of Casa Ruby, the LGBTQ+ organization that is under investigation for embezzlement, were indicted for negligence and damages in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of Washington DC. The complete story in El Tiempo Latino can be found here: https://eltiempolatino.com/2023/01/11/local/ocho-directivos-de-casa-ruby-fueron-acusados-formalmente-de-negligencia-y-danos/Read More

With less than two weeks left before his retirement, SGT Nick Harrison reported to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the military’s personnel chiefs continue to defy the orders of both a U.S. District Court Judge and the U.S. Secretary of Defense, violate the rights of 2,000 of his fellow servicemembers, and disregard their oaths...Read More

The Casa Ruby board of directors failed to provide oversight for the embattled LGBTQ nonprofit, a complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court alleges. The board never met and did not keep records, the complaint says, a failure that allowed Casa Ruby founder Ruby Corado to embezzle more than $800,000, increase her own salary and open...Read More

On Friday, Harrison-Stein, PC filed the Receiver’s Third Interim Report in the District of Columbia v. Casa Ruby, Inc. In the court filing, the Receiver concludes that the organization did not collapse due to the loss of an $800,000.00 grant from the District of Columbia. Noting that Casa Ruby, Inc. received $5,169,098.03 in 2021, the report states,...Read More

In its amended complaint, the DC Attorney General’s Office alleges that Ruby Corado created three shell companies and stole millions of dollars from Casa Ruby, Inc. It notes that the Board of Directors ceded all control over the organization’s governances and finances. “Until a receiver was appointed in September 2022, not a single individual had...Read More

The DCist reported that bank statements showed Ruby Corado allegedly withdrew over $420,000 in cash from ATMs in the United States and El Salvador and that members of the Board of Directors could provide evidence that the meetings mandated by law to discuss expenses, operations, and salaries of the organization were held. Summarizing the Receiver’s...Read More

El Tiempo Latino, a Spanish-language free-circulation weekly newspaper published in Washington, DC, published another article about the ongoing case against Ruby Corado and Casa Ruby, Inc. authored by Carmen Rodriguez — an investigative reporter whose interest was initially sparked because she was also from El Salvador. A translation of the article can be found here:...Read More

Harrison-Stein, PC filed the Receiver’s Second Interim Report today in the District of Columbia v. Casa Ruby, Inc. In the court filing, the Receiver reports that it has secured all important documents and returned all leased properties to the landlords. It raises concerns about the lack of any official records of business conducted by the Board of Directors.  The...Read More

On Thursday, DC Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson denied a request by Ruby Corado to impose a gag order — prohibiting the Attorney General’s office or the court-appointed receiver from discussing or releasing information that was part of the public record. Corado appeared critical of a story that appeared in the Washington Blade one hour...Read More