The founder of a D.C. nonprofit that served homeless LGBTQ+ youth was sentenced Tuesday to almost three years in prison and $950,000 in restitution for funneling emergency COVID-19 funds to private bank accounts in El Salvador.
Ruby Corado transferred money that was intended for the nonprofit Casa Ruby to offshore accounts and hid it from the IRS, according to prosecutors. She had received more than $1.3 million in funding from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.
Corado admitted diverting some of those funds to her native El Salvador, where she says she wanted to introduce Casa Ruby’s services.
She pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Prosecutors agreed to drop the other charges in exchange for her guilty plea.
Corado was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release.
When Casa Ruby’s financial issues became public in 2022, Corado sold her home in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and fled to El Salvador, the attorney’s office said.
Casa Ruby stopped operating in July 2022, failing to pay rent and employees and closing its transitional housing, the attorney’s office said.
Corado had received more than $9 million in grants from the District since 2016.
FBI agents arrested Corado in 2024 after she unexpectedly returned to the U.S.
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