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Yet another massive fraud scandal has exploded in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, this time involving a so-called “crime prevention” nonprofit that allegedly looted $6.5 MILLION in taxpayer-backed charitable assets to bankroll luxury cars, Vegas getaways, child support payments, and the founder’s personal for-profit businesses.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a far-left Democrat himself, just filed a lawsuit against We Push for Peace, its founder Trahern Pollard, and former director Jaclyn McGuigan.
The suit accuses them of treating the nonprofit like their own personal piggy bank while the organization was supposed to be interrupting violence in Minneapolis.
According to the lawsuit, Pollard, who founded the group in 2016, and McGuigan diverted more than $6 MILLION directly to Pollard’s personal benefit. That money allegedly paid for:
Lavish trips to Las Vegas
Child support payments dressed up as “organizational overhead”
Funding Pollard’s for-profit liquor store, Merwin Liquors in north Minneapolis
His car dealership businesses
Luxury purchases including vehicles from Harley-Davidson and other high-end buys
Even a shady $35,000 “Chicago Payroll” payment to Pollard’s friends
More from Fox News:
Pollard is also accused of using the nonprofit to pay off his child support, settle a personal tax bill with the IRS, and subsidize his private, for-profit businesses — including a used car dealership and liquor store.
McGuigan, who acted as the charity’s treasurer, allegedly transferred a recurring $1,000 per week of nonprofit funds into her own personal account and stole thousands more in government grant funds that she claimed were for “administrative” expenses.
“Instead of helping the community, they helped themselves to millions of dollars that should have gone into the community,” Ellison wrote in a statement.
Prosecutors noted that when the City of Minneapolis requested the nonprofit’s assistance during Operation Metro Surge, a major Homeland Security enforcement operation in Minnesota, the once-multimillion-dollar organization was “utterly incapable” of answering the call.
When state investigators began closing in, Pollard allegedly submitted false statements under the penalty of perjury, falsely claiming a child support payment was “nonprofit overhead” and that a $35,000 payout to his personal friends was “Chicago payroll.”
To justify the missing millions, prosecutors claim Pollard quickly incorporated a fake “for-profit arm” of the charity just days after the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office began asking questions.
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