Monica Cannon-Grant, Boston’s leading race-baiting “social justice” activist, is facing federal fraud charges after being indicted for defrauding donors out of millions.
Cannon-Grant and her husband Clark Grant were indicted on March 15 and hit with 18 counts of using donations to her nonprofit activist organization Violence in Boston to fund her lavish lifestyle, the Boston Globe reported.
Prosecutors say that instead of using the donations to aid “victims” of discrimination, Cannon-Grant used the money for high-end hotel reservations, travel expenses, lavish meals at expensive restaurants, food deliveries, nail salon services and other personal expenses, all while hiding the expenditures from her organization’s staffers, auditors and bookkeepers.
Cannon-Grant and her husband are even accused of taking $100,000 in unemployment benefits they were not entitled to collect.
The two were charged with two counts each of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of conspiracy, 13 counts of wire fraud, and one count of making false statements on mortgage filings, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins’s office said in its announcement.
“The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to use VIB as a vehicle to solicit and receive charitable contributions from institutional and individual donors that they then used for a wide range of personal expenses and to enrich themselves,” the announcement added.
The 38-page indictment identified the fraudulent spending as occurring between 2017 and 2020.