Notorious and Celebrated HATER Steals from Her Own, Gets Coddled by Court
"Bostonian of the Year" ordered to pay back $224K she stole from her own nonprofit
“Bostonian of the Year” ordered to pay back $224K she stole from her own nonprofit
(Mass Daily News) - The Boston Globe named her Bostonian of the Year. Boston Magazine called her the city’s “best social justice advocate.” A federal judge just called her tab: $224,063.
Monica Cannon-Grant, the former community organizer who rose to fame leading a massive 2020 Black Lives Matter march through Boston, was ordered Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley to forfeit every dollar she made from her crimes — from diverting donations from her own nonprofit, collecting fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, and pocketing rental assistance she wasn’t entitled to.
The forfeiture amount includes roughly $181,000 in diverted donations from Violence in Boston Inc., the nonprofit she founded, more than $33,000 in fraudulent pandemic unemployment benefits, and about $12,600 in rental assistance benefits, according to a copy of the court order.
That’s on top of the $106,000 in restitution Kelley already ordered at Cannon-Grant’s sentencing in January, when the judge gave her four years of probation, six months of home detention, and 100 hours of community service — no prison time, despite prosecutors requesting…