CONCORD — Attorney General John Formella has filed a civil suit against a nonprofit that he said “purports to be a charitable organization … (but) whose board members have failed to comply with their obligations” under state law.

The organization, “Fab Family Fund,” has allegedly held “numerous fundraisers” and “solicited donations” through its Facebook account and its website “‘to educate, facilitate and grant breast cancer thrivers and their families an all-expense paid trip for solace and healing'” without registering with the IRS, and allegedly failing to respond to several “repeated requests for information and to administrative subpoenas” issued by the director of the AG’s Charitable Trusts division.

The injunction seeks to prevent Fab Family Fund and members of its board of directors from operating a charitable organization, and from engaging in charitable solicitations, according to the suit.

Formella filed the suit in Rockingham County Superior Court, apparently because two of the three principals of the organization live in the town of Atkinson.

The two are identified as Shanna Pinet, also known as Dr. Fabianna Marie, listed as Fab Family Fund’s chief executive officer, and her husband, David Pinet, who is listed as its treasurer.

The third named defendant, Michelle Tolson, of Brooklyn, New York, is currently listed as the fund’s president, according to Formella.

“The Fab Family Fund claimed on its

Facebook page and website that it was ‘an established 501(c)(3) organization’ or a ‘501(c)(3) nonprofit,'” Formella wrote, but the Internal Revenue Service has not recognized the organization as exempt.

He said the director of Charitable Trusts alleges that the fund, the Pinets and Tolson “have violated four separate New Hampshire charitable trust laws,” and is seeking restitution from them on behalf of the donors, as well as attorneys’ fees, costs related to the investigation, and $10,000 in civil penalties for each of the four alleged violations of the laws.

“The director is also seeking dissolution of the Fab Family Fund as a charitable organization,” along with an injunction that prevents the three from engaging in charitable solicitations on behalf of the fund.

It also seeks to prevent the three from “serving as an officer or director of any charitable organization in New Hampshire for a period of ten years.”

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.