Sentencing for Ruby Corado postponed
The sentencing in D.C. federal court for Ruby Corado, the founder and executive director of the now-defunct LGBTQ community services organization Casa Ruby on a charge of wire fraud, has been postponed from Jan.
10 to March 28. The postponement came just under six months after Corado pleaded guilty on July 17 to a single charge of wire fraud as part of a plea bargain deal offered by prosecutors.
Court records show that the judge presiding over the case on Dec. 24 approved a request by Corado’s attorney for the postponement and that prosecutors with the Office of the U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia supported the request. The charge to which she pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia says she diverted at least $150,000 “in taxpayer backed emergency COVID relief funds to private offshore bank accounts for her personal use,” according to a statement released by the U.S.
