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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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