"Guess which prison he is going to for 33 months, THE MEN’s.
About damn time the “Trans get out of Jail free card” expires."
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Guess which prison he is going to for 33 months, THE MEN’s.
About damn time the “Trans get out of Jail free card” expires.
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Once-revered trans activist Ruby Corado gets prison time in fraud case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/13/ruby-corado-trans-activist-sentenced
"A once-revered transgender activist whose D.C. nonprofit housed and aided homeless LGBTQ+ immigrants and youths was sentenced Tuesday to serve 33 months in federal prison and pay more than $900,000 in restitution — a sentence that is likely to trigger deportation proceedings — after she pleaded guilty to diverting federal pandemic relief funds meant to support her clients to offshore personal bank accounts in El Salvador.
“You came to this country hiding under the floorboards of a vegetable truck and this country gave you refuge,” Judge Trevor N. McFadden told Ruby Corado as he handed down the sentence at the Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse. “You betrayed this country.”
Standing at the center of the courtroom Tuesday in an orange jumpsuit, her long hair unstyled and streaked with gray, Corado, 54, wept as she pleaded with the court for leniency. She mishandled the money, she confessed, and tried to invest the U.S. taxpayer dollars she received as loans into a nascent shelter for transgender women in El Salvador that she hoped would mirror her D.C. nonprofit, Casa Ruby. But, Corado said, she has regretted her choices every day since. She did not understand at the time the kind of harm she was causing, she said.
“I wish I could’ve done things differently, but it is already done,” Corado said, pausing to weep, before she was sentenced Tuesday. “I got caught up in my mission to help others. But I am the first one to hold myself accountable.”
Her attorney had argued that ordering incarceration for Corado — a trans woman who had been sexually assaulted multiple times in her life — would put her in harm’s way by forcing her into a men’s prison under new rules by the Trump administration that call for moving inmates into prisons that align with their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender, as she awaits deportation proceedings from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“It would be cruel and unusual punishment in her unique circumstances,” said attorney Pleasant S. Brodnax, who had asked the judge to impose a more lenient sentence of time served — about 18 months of home confinement — and repayment of the money in question. “The size of what [Casa Ruby] was trying to do may have exceeded the capacity of the person running the organization. Sometimes, you’re just in over your head.”
Prosecutors had urged the judge to sentence Corado to 33 months in prison, punishment for what the U.S. attorney’s office said was “dishonest and disgusting” conduct that involved moving “almost $300,000 offshore into bank accounts that were beyond the reach of law enforcement,” according to court filings.
McFadden argued that if he offered Corado a more lenient sentence out of fear of mistreatment in prison it would amount to sex discrimination. “People should be treated equally,” he said, adding that he did not want to treat Corado “more favorably because you are transgender.”
McFadden further ordered Corado, who is a legal permanent resident of the U.S., to “immediately” report to ICE for immigration enforcement proceedings. He acknowledged that “deportation is likely, if not certain” in her case.
“It’s important that people know there are significant consequences for defrauding the government,” McFadden said. “I hope you will use this time as a chastening period.”
Tuesday’s sentencing is the latest development in Corado’s dramatic fall from grace after the safe house she founded for unhoused LGBTQ+ youths in D.C. closed amid swirling allegations of fraud, abuse and financial mismanagement. In 2022, Corado fled to El Salvador amid intensifying public scrutiny of her nonprofit. She was arrested two years later and charged with financial crimes upon her return to the United States."
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Trans founder of defunct LGBTQ nonprofit sentenced to 33 months in prison, $1 MILLION fine for pandemic relief fraud
“Instead of using the funds as promised, Corado stole over $950,000, transferred at least $150,000 to bank accounts in El Salvador, and hid it fr...
Once-revered trans activist Ruby Corado gets prison time in fraud case
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Once-revered trans activist Ruby Corado gets prison time in fraud case
A once-revered transgender activist whose D.C. nonprofit housed and aided homeless LGBTQ+ immigrants and youths was sentenced Tuesday to serve
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