A prominent transgender activist stole nearly $100,000 from a bail fund she operated, using the money to pay for her closet renovations and her Mercedes, prosecutors in Brooklyn allege.
Dominique Morgan, 43, of Atlanta, was already making $200,000 a year as the executive director of the Brooklyn-based Okra Project when she stole $99,000 during a roughly two-week period in July 2022, prosecutors allege.
Morgan announced that Okra, which offers mutual aid and other resources to the Black trans community nationwide, would start bailing people out, but didn’t take any steps to create an official initiative, prosecutors charge.
She transferred the money into her personal account, ostensibly to bail out indigent criminal defendants, but instead spent it on a $19,000 California Closets renovation, car payments for a Mercedes-Benz, purchases at clothing stores, meals and other personal expenses, according to prosecutors.
When Okra asked her for proof she was using the money for bail, she cooked up bogus receipts for 23 people who were supposedly arrested in Fulton County, Ga., and Douglas County, Neb., prosecutors allege. But an audit showed none of those people had been arrested in either county at the time, prosecutors said.
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