An anti-police activist is accused of using funds from his D.C.-based nonprofit as a personal piggy bank to pay for swanky vacation homes and a new wardrobe of designer clothes.

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said this week that his office has filed a lawsuit against Brandon Anderson, founder and executive director of police accountability nonprofit Raheem AI, alleging he used donations to the organization for his own benefit.

The attorney general said that Mr. Anderson’s organization also is being sued for not following city laws on monitoring nonprofit spending and for not paying the nonprofit’s lone D.C.-based employee the wages she earned.

“Brandon Anderson misused charitable donations to fund lavish vacations and shopping sprees, and the Raheem AI Board of Directors let him get away with it,” Mr. Schwalb said in a statement. “Not only did their financial abuses violate fundamental principles of nonprofit governance, but Anderson and Raheem AI failed to pay their employee the wages they had earned. My office will not allow people to masquerade behind noble causes while violating the law, cheating taxpayers, or stealing from their workers.”

Mr. Anderson is accused of spending $75,000 of the nonprofit’s funds to support his luxurious lifestyle since 2021.

That includes $40,000 spent on a vacation rental service that books mansions and penthouse apartments; $10,000 on designer clothing brands such as Saks, Bottega Veneta and Alexander McQueen; $10,000 on hotels and travel to places such as Cancun, Mexico; and $5,000 on “emergency veterinary services.”

Raheem AI was founded in 2017 and sought to “empower communities to achieve greater police transparency and accountability.” The organization purported to use its donations to give “black, brown, and indigenous community crisis responders with the tools, training, connections, and funding they need to provide care.”

Mr. Anderson has described himself as a police abolitionist in past interviews, and said he intended to use the nonprofit donations to fund an emergency response app that was an alternative to calling the police when in crisis.

He raised more than $4 million before the app project flamed out, according to The New York Times. A former Raheem AI employee said she learned about Mr. Anderson’s spending habits after coming across credit card statements that detailed his purchases.

The OAG said the former employee alerted the nonprofit’s board about Mr. Anderson’s alleged personal use of charitable funds in April — right around the time the employee said she stopped being paid by Raheem AI.

The Washington Times reached out to Brandon Anderson for comment.