Two former leaders of We Push for Peace siphoned more than $6.5 million in nonprofit funds and assets for personal use and created a for-profit company that depleted the organization’s charitable funds, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month.
The lawsuit, filed by the state Attorney General’s Office, alleges rampant abuse orchestrated by former leaders, Trahern Pollard and Jaclyn McGuigan. Pollard used more than $6 million to buy luxury cars, make trips to Las Vegas, pay child support, and fund a car dealership and a liquor store, the former Merwyn Liquors on West Broadway Avenue, the lawsuit said.
“We Push for Peace’s former leaders betrayed their basic duties to the nonprofit and communities they were supposed to serve,” Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement. “Instead of helping the community, they helped themselves to millions of dollars that should have gone into the community…