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A prominent Black Lives Matter activist honored as "Bostonian of the
Year" in 2020 was indicted on Tuesday alongside her husband on
accusations of treating an anti-violence charity as a personal piggy
bank.
Prosecutors said Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant,
conspired to use their charity, Violence in Boston , as a vehicle
for personal enrichment when they founded the group in 2017. The
pair was indicted on charges of stealing donations that were meant
to purchase meals for needy children, help at-risk young men cope
with violence in their neighborhoods, and organize conferences for
black women to pay for rent, vacations, nail salon services, and
meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp.
As Cannon-Grant's profile grew in 2020 during the nationwide unrest
that followed George Floyd's killing, so too did donations to the
charity.
FEDS PROBE BLM ACTIVIST FOR ALLEGEDLY PILFERING FUNDS FROM CHARITY
"With this larger influx of VIB funds, Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant
began to help themselves to greater amounts from the VIB Bank
Account," prosecutors wrote in the 18-count indictment , saying that
she began paying herself $2,788 per week from Violence in Boston
beginning in October 2020.
The pair faces 13 counts of wire fraud, each of which carries a
sentence of up to 20 years of prison, prosecutors said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Cannon-Grant and her husband were also charged with lying in a
mortgage application by claiming the charity's bank account as an
asset when they applied for a $450,000 mortgage in July 2021.
The pair also faces charges of illegally obtaining a combined
$101,376 in COVID-19 unemployment assistance in 2020 while Cannon-
Grant simultaneously raked in $12,500 payments for providing
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting services."
Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant defrauded donors to the charity
as early as August 2017, when a local BLM chapter donated $3,000 to
the group to help support its program to feed needy children and
that two days later, Cannon-Grant transferred the funds to a bank
account belonging to one of her family members, who subsequently
withdrew the funds in cash.
One month later, in September 2017, Cannon-Grant allegedly cashed a
$10,400 grant to the charity earmarked for meals for needy children
in the Boston school system into her personal bank account and
subsequently pulled $3,111 from the grant to pay for rent at her
Boston residence.
Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant and her husband often made cash
withdrawals from Violence in Boston's bank account to "avoid a
financial paper trail."
In 2019, Violence in Boston received a $6,000 grant from the
Massachusetts District Attorney's Office to fund a retreat for at-
risk young men to help them develop skills to cope with violence in
their neighborhoods. But prosecutors said the funds were ultimately
used to pay for a vacation to Columbia, Maryland, in which Cannon-
Grant and her husband spent hundreds of dollars on nail salon
services, meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp, and cash ATM withdraws.
Also in 2019, Cannon-Grant cashed a $500 charitable contribution
into her personal checking account that was intended to support a
"Black Women & Marginalized Genders" conference co-hosted by her
charity, the indictment alleges.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not- elitism/boston-blm-leader-charged-with-pilfering-funds-from- charity-meant-to-feed-children
Democrats and BLM, peas from the same pod.
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