Joanna Smith-Griffin was the founder and CEO of AllHere Education, Inc., a startup that offered artificial intelligence chatbots to school districts.

The founder of an artificial intelligence startup who promised to improve school attendance with an AI chatbot was arrested Tuesday and charged with fraud. Joanna Smith-Griffin, 33, was detained in North Carolina on two fraud charges out of Manhattan Federal Court.

Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with lying to investors about revenue and her customer base, which she claimed included some of the nation’s largest school districts, including New York City’s.

U.S. law enforcement arrested and indicted the founder of an artificial intelligence edtech startup AllHere over fraud charges. Federal prosecutors accused

Joanna Smith-Griffin was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday. Her startup AllHere created an AI chatbot for the Los Angeles Unified School District, which was quietly shelved over the summer.