Boston BLM Activist Fraudster Who Scammed More Than $100K Sentenced to Zero Jail Time
“This case illustrates that anyone who defrauds state programs and exploits their position in the community, will be held accountable for their actions.”
Monica Cannon-Grant is a Boston-based Black Lives Matter activist who has pleaded guilty to scamming more than $100,000 in Covid funds and other resources in order to fund her lavish lifestyle.
Yesterday, she was sentenced to six months of home confinement followed by four years of probation. No jail time.
Apparently, some people are actually above the law.
Just a few years ago, Cannon-Grant was celebrated by liberal media outlets in Massachusetts as the ‘Bostonian of the Year.’
FOX News reports:
Social justice advocate once named Bostonian of the Year sentenced in fraud case
A well-known community and social justice activist who founded a Boston nonprofit to reduce violence and who was once was lauded as Bostonian of the Year avoided jail time in a federal fraud case, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty in September 2025 to 18 of 27 counts, including wire fraud, mail fraud and failing to file tax returns related to a scheme in which Cannon-Grant and her late husband, Clark Grant, pocketed thousands of dollars in donations to their nonprofit.
She was sentenced Thursday to four years probation. She was also ordered to pay $106,003 in restitution. Federal prosecutors recommended U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley sentence Cannon-Grant to 18 months in prison.
“Ms. Cannon-Grant’s actions were crimes of greed and opportunity,” said Nicolas Bucciarelli, acting inspector in charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division.
Cannon-Grant and her husband were accused of diverting COVID-relief and rental assistance funds from their Violence in Boston nonprofit for personal expenses and collecting about $100,000 in illegal unemployment benefits, among other charges.
CBS News in Boston devoted a whopping 21 seconds to the news of her sentence in this video:
The United States Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts took a victory lap over the ridiculous terms of the sentence with this press release:
Former Bostonian of the Year Sentenced for Fraud
The founder and former Chief Executive Officer of a Boston-based nonprofit was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for using thousands of dollars in donations to Violence in Boston (VIB) to pay for personal expenses; defrauding the City of Boston out of COVID-19 relief funds and rental assistance money; defrauding the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office out of Community Reinvestment Grant funds; filing false tax returns; and failing to file tax returns for two years.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, of Taunton, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley to four years’ probation, with six months of home detention and 100 hours of community service. She was also ordered to pay restitution of $106,003 as well as forfeiture in an amount to be decided at a later date. The government recommended a sentence of 18 months in prison…
“Ms. Cannon-Grant’s actions were crimes of greed and opportunity but will not go unpunished thanks to the law enforcement community, who have dedicated their mission to uncovering and putting an end to such devious schemes. This case illustrates that anyone who defrauds state programs and exploits their position in the community, will be held accountable for their actions.
Yeah, you guys sure showed her.
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her cred just went up a 1000%
the black matriarchy is in control
they even sided with obvious murderer oj and his white lifestyle …just to show whty they are in charge
well they are
thank a gop for that
Clearly two systems of justice in MA. Cannon-Grant gets no jail time. Just last year a republican former state senator got 18 months for stealing far less than Cannon-Grant. Dean Tran is his name.
U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley
thats
sista U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley
Another Autopen Brandon “angel of crime.”
My checklist for travel within these United States:
1. Can I freely carry concealed in the state I travel to or through?
2. Do I want to spend time and money on their economy?
3. What is the judicial system like? What are my chances of a fair trial?
Massachusetts is a “No” to my criteria for traveling to or through.
I’ve been using the same one.
Irony is right out of college I was trying to land my first big gig for real money and I had 2 competing offers; one in San Jose, the other in Hillsboro OR. I didn’t own a gun and wasn’t really a 2A zealot but I actually used Ca’s gun laws along with cost of living, housing, income tax (same as OR) in my criteria to not leave Oregon.
I left Oregon in 2000. For family reasons, but lucky I did.
So if someone is already a shut in, a hermit or a highly antisocial and/or a homebody they can commit fraud and expect to be sentenced to home detention…. which is where they prefer to be anyway. Seems like a sweet gig but not much a deterrent. Frankly this sentence reeks of the same bad logical formulation some make about insurance fraud ‘the IN CO is rich’ replaced with the ‘gov’t is rich’ in their I need $, they have it, it’s a victimless crime nonsense justification.
Forget it, Mr LaChsnce. It’s Boston.
Angel Kelley is a Biden appointee, natch.
For a point of comparison, in 2004 Martha Stewart was found guilty of profiting by trading using insider information. In total it is estimated that Steward avoided a loss of about $45,000. For that she was sentenced to 5 months in prison. It is remarkable the disparity of the sentences,
Marilyn Mosby comes to mind in Balto..
The left wants to abolish jail, except for conservative dissidents
See my comment on the Luigi Mangione article above.
Subotai Bahadur
More BS
zzzzz *snort* zzz hmm
o did something happen .. a leftist
got convicted … o .. o how long
a prison sentence did they get..
o home confinement.. so they
can continue to steal .. got it..
ok … zzzz zzzzz zz. wake me up
when someone goes to PRISON.
No White Kings?
Well, Color Me shocked that they don’t hold their own side to account. There no longer is any accountability
“Apparently, some people are actually above the law.”
Bill and Hillary don’t even bother to enter the chat.
Comey: “Hillary was just a silly little woman who did’nt know any better than to destroy subpoenaed evidence. No charges!”
Should keep track of every Culture Marxist who is above the law.
Another Leftist mantra No one is above the law ( except us Lefts)
You could get more for robbing a 7-11 store
Another glaring example of “black skin privilege.”
That privilege is only conferred, of course, if you have corrupt, Dhimmi-crat activist federal “judges” who are happy to sacrifice objective notions of fairness and justice in criminal sentencing, to advance the Dhimmi-crats’ corrosive racial victimhood doctrines; i.e., it’s allegedly “racist” to incarcerate criminals “of color.”
The Biden Crime Syndicate continues to thrive.
Hey, look at me. I stole over $100,000 from whitey and have to sit home watching The View. Big deal.
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