Indicted BLM charity fraudster Monica Cannon-Grant has pleaded responsible to nearly 20 federal costs, in keeping with the courtroom report.
Cannon-Grant — who was charged in 2022 for misusing charity funds — pleaded responsible on Monday to: 10 counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud; three counts of wire fraud conspiracy; one depend of aiding and abetting mail fraud; two counts of submitting false tax returns; and two counts of failure to file tax returns.
In alternate for the responsible plea, the Massachusetts U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace agreed to drop a depend of conspiracy, seven counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud, and a depend of constructing false statements to a mortgage lending enterprise.
She’s set to be sentenced on Jan. 29 subsequent yr.
Federal prosecutors first charged Cannon-Grant and her husband Clark Grant in March 2022 with 18 fraud-related counts for misusing funds donated to the couple’s charity, Violence in Boston. Federal prosecutors then issued a superseding indictment one yr later charging them with 27 counts.
Her husband has since died in a motorbike crash, and the fees in opposition to him have been dropped.
Federal prosecutors charged Cannon-Grant with three distinct conspiracies. The primary is the misuse of donations to the couple’s charity Violence in Boston for private use, the second is the misuse of public funds — together with the Pandemic Unemployment Help program — and the third is alleged fraud associated to the mortgage on the couple’s Taunton residence.
Cannon-Grant allegedly paid herself a hefty wage from the charity’s coffers, in direct distinction to public statements that she took no wage.
She’s additionally accused of directing co-conspirators to use for private and non-private grants for the group that truly went towards the couple’s residing bills. The feds stated a $10,400 grant from a division retailer for use to feed hungry youngsters was really laundered by means of a church to pay again lease.
She’s additionally accused of utilizing up a $6,000 grant from the Suffolk District Lawyer’s workplace when it was nonetheless below the management of Rachael Rollins, who was pressured to stop her U.S. Lawyer’s job in Boston.
Cannon-Grant was fired from Violence in Boston by its board of administrators in 2022, and the charity was shuttered.
