Former Boston Metropolis Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who was convicted within the spring on federal corruption prices tied to a Metropolis Corridor kickback scheme, will report back to the Bureau of Prisons Friday to start her monthlong jail sentence.
Fernandes Anderson, 46, “will be reporting to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons” to “serve her sentence,” per a Thursday federal courtroom submitting. The Bureau didn’t instantly reply to a Herald inquiry about which jail she is going to reside at.
The ex-Roxbury-centric metropolis councilor has requested that her passport be returned to her possession, by means of it being transferred from her probation officer to her legal professional, at the moment. Prosecutors have agreed to that and a associated request that she now not be topic to pre-trial circumstances of launch, the courtroom submitting states.
Fernandes Anderson was sentenced to a month in jail, three years of probation and was ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution early final month.
“I feel disgusted, like I can’t forgive myself,” Fernandes Anderson stated at her Sept. 5 sentencing listening to in federal courtroom.
Final month’s sentencing listening to adopted Fernandes Anderson’s conviction on federal corruption prices in Could.
The ex-councilor pleaded responsible on Could 5 to 2 of six prices — one depend of wire fraud and one depend of theft regarding a federal program — that had been lodged in opposition to her in a December 2024 federal indictment.
Fernandes Anderson accepted a plea settlement with the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace in April, with a advice from prosecutors that she be sentenced to a 12 months and a day in jail and ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution. 4 of the costs she was indicted on had been dropped as a part of the plea deal.
U.S. District Courtroom Decide Indira Talwani opted to impose a lighter sentence, citing sentencing tips that referred to as for zero to 6 months based mostly on Fernandes Anderson’s lack of a legal document. Her legal professional had sought solely probation.
“It’s serious,” Talwani stated on the sentencing listening to. “Maybe it was low-hanging fruit because you thought you could get away with it, but it is a breach of the trust we put in public officials.”
Fernandes Anderson was convicted on prices tied to allegations made by the federal authorities that she gave one in all her employees members, a relative however not rapid member of the family, a $13,000 bonus on the situation that $7,000 be kicked again to her. The handoff was coordinated by textual content and passed off in a Metropolis Corridor lavatory in June 2023, prosecutors stated.
The federal indictment mentions that Fernandes Anderson could have been motivated, partially, by the “personal financial difficulty” she was dealing with on the time. Fernandes Anderson was staring down an impending $5,000 high quality for a state ethics violation round that point interval, for hiring two rapid relations to her Metropolis Council employees, giving them raises, and within the case of her sister, a bonus.
Fernandes Anderson was paid a $120,000 wage as a metropolis councilor. She defied calls to resign for greater than six months after she was arrested and indicted by federal authorities final December.
The progressive Democrat resigned from the Metropolis Council on July 4, two months after her conviction and a 12 months and half into her second, two-year time period.
Fernandes Anderson was the primary Muslim-American, African immigrant and previously undocumented individual to be elected to the Metropolis Council.
