{"id":1409406,"date":"2022-03-30T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409406"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:30:40","slug":"boston-progressive-activist-husband-plead-not-guilty-to-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-progressive-activist-husband-plead-not-guilty-to-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Progressive Activist, Husband Plead Not Guilty To Federal Charges Of Fraud, Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboston-progressive-activist-husband-plead-not-guilty-to-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409406&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Monica.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, Monica Cannon-Grant, a progressive Boston activist who gained prominence in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death in 2020 and involvement with protests associated with the city\u2019s Black Lives Matter movement, pleaded not guilty to \u201cdefrauding donors to their nonprofit Violence in Boston (VIB), fraudulently obtaining pandemic-related unemployment benefits and making false statements to a mortgage lender,\u201d WBUR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/monica-cannon-grant-plead-not-guilty-fraud-charges-boston\">reported<\/a>. Cannon-Grant\u2019s husband, Clark, is also accused of several crimes and also pled not guilty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/progressive-activist-a-2020-bostonian-of-the-year-arrested-on-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=benshapiro&#038;fbclid=IwAR3xt0mU74fU0VZFk13dAWmXle8l_7ZrYyON0mt2a8QNdZsgCcAnjzh675M\">reported<\/a> that Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins\u2019 office arrested and charged Cannon-Grant and her husband in part related to a \u201cscheme to defraud donors to their non-profit, VIB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Herald added that prosecutors \u201callege the couple diverted charitable donations to VIB to their personal expenses, including nail salons, restaurants, food deliveries, hotel reservations, car rentals and auto repairs, among other things, according to prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendants did not disclose to other VIB directors or VIB\u2019s bookkeepers or financial auditors that they had used VIB funds for such payments,\u201d the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office said in a statement announcing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Herald, the couple is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/03\/15\/monica-cannon-grant-clark-grant-charged-in-18-count-fraud-conspiracy-indictment\/\">also accused<\/a> of \u201cconspiracy in connection with access to federal pandemic unemployment benefits.\u201d Likewise, Cannon-Grant and her husband are accused of mortgage fraud:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>The couple are also charged with defrauding a mortgage company by submitting \u201cfalse information and fraudulent documentation,\u201d allegedly listing the bank account and financial assets of VIB as their own, on a mortgage application.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Examiner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/feds-probe-blm-activist-for-allegedly-pilfering-funds-from-charity\">reported<\/a> on March 9 that prior to her arrest, Cannon-Grant confirmed via podcast that was she being investigated, but that it was because other black leaders \u201cwere jealous of her meteoric rise \u2018partnered with white supremacy\u2019 in an attempt to bring her down\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201cIn 2020, we went from a $40,000, $50,000 a year organization to a [multimillion-dollar] organization \u2014 more money, more problems,\u201d Cannon-Grant said. \u201cThe moment funding started coming in and the world started seeing us doing the work, which prompted awards and accolades, it was, \u2018I want what she got. She don\u2019t deserve it.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Examiner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/feds-probe-blm-activist-for-allegedly-pilfering-funds-from-charity\">also provided more background<\/a>\u00a0on Cannon-Grant, who has several connections to high-profile Massachusetts Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder and CEO of the charity group Violence in Boston, rose to prominence in the Boston BLM community after George Floyd\u2019s murder in May 2020. Something of a powerbroker in Boston Democratic politics, she\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/erry-2018\/09\/0e9fe18b8d9493\/who-is-ayanna-pressley-from-a.html\"><i>reportedly<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0established a close working relationship with Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu when the two served on the Boston City Council. Former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200901213512\/https:\/kennedyforma.com\/news\/joe-i-know-roxbury-activist-monica-cannon-grant\/\"><i>hailed<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0Cannon-Grant\u2019s endorsement of his failed 2020 Senate campaign.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cannon-Grant was named the 2020 \u2018Bostonian of the Year\u2019 by the Boston Globe for activism after the death of George Floyd and for her involvement with protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement in the city of Boston. The paper recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/03\/07\/metro\/boston-activist-under-scrutiny-by-federal-grand-jury\/\">noted<\/a> that Boston magazine also awarded her for her efforts in social justice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/1ueRj\/https:\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/06\/06\/metro\/heres-monica-with-sea-people-behind-her\/\"><i>Cannon-Grant<\/i><\/a><i>, a mother of six, has emerged as a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement in recent years. In 2020, she organized a march in Franklin Park that drew thousands of people to protest the deaths of Black people at the hands of police. She formed a collaboration with the restaurant Food for the Soul in Dorchester to distribute more than 1,000 free meals a day to people struggling during the pandemic.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>For her efforts, she was honored as a Bostonian of the Year by the Boston Globe Magazine and hailed as the city\u2019s \u201cbest social justice advocate<b>\u201d<\/b>\u00a0by Boston Magazine.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her charity, VIB, does not have any known connection to the official Black Lives Matter group. In October, her husband was \u201ccharged by criminal complaint in October 2021 with one count of wire fraud and one count of false statements on a loan and credit application. An arraignment date for Grant has not yet been scheduled,\u201d the Herald\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/03\/15\/monica-cannon-grant-clark-grant-charged-in-18-count-fraud-conspiracy-indictment\/\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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