(Tea Party PAC) – According to a new report from the folks at The Washington Examiner, a very prominent leader in the Black Lives Matter movement who was honored as the “Bostonian of the Year” back in 2020, has been indicted this week along with her husband, on accusations of treating an anti-violence charity as their own personal bank account.

“Prosecutors said Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant, conspired to use their charity, Violence in Boston, as a vehicle for personal enrichment when they founded the group in 2017. The pair was indicted on charges of stealing donations that were meant to purchase meals for needy children, help at-risk young men cope with violence in their neighborhoods, and organize conferences for black women to pay for rent, vacations, nail salon services, and meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp,” the report stated.

As the profile for Cannon-Grant grew exponentially during the period of nationwide civil unrest that exploded in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, so did the donations to the charity.

“With this larger influx of VIB funds, Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant began to help themselves to greater amounts from the VIB Bank Account,” prosecutors went on to write in the 18-count indictment , going on to say that she began giving herself $2,788 per week from Violence in Boston starting back in October 2020.

The married couple now faces 13 counts of wire fraud. Each of these counts carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison, according to a statement made by prosecutors on Tuesday.

Cannon-Grant and her hubby were also charged with lying in a mortgage application by stating that the charity’s bank account was an asset when they went to apply for a $450,000 mortgage in July of last year.

“The pair also faces charges of illegally obtaining a combined $101,376 in COVID-19 unemployment assistance in 2020 while Cannon-Grant simultaneously raked in $12,500 payments for providing ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting services,'” the Washington Examiner reported.

“Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant defrauded donors to the charity as early as August 2017, when a local BLM chapter donated $3,000 to the group to help support its program to feed needy children and that two days later, Cannon-Grant transferred the funds to a bank account belonging to one of her family members, who subsequently withdrew the funds in cash,” the report continued.

A month later, in September 2017, Cannon-Grant is alleged to have cashed a $10,400 grant to the charity that was earmarked as being for meals for needy children attending the Boston school system into her own personal bank account and then pulling $3,111 from the grant to pay the rent for her residence located in Boston.

How sickening do you have to be to take money from a fund designed to help feed kids who can’t afford food? This woman deserves to have the maximum sentence for each of the 13 charges and never see the light of day as a free person again.

Prosecutors then say that Cannon-Grant, along with her husband, often made withdrawals from Violence in Boston’s bank account in order to “avoid a financial paper trail.”

“In 2019, Violence in Boston received a $6,000 grant from the Massachusetts District Attorney’s Office to fund a retreat for at-risk young men to help them develop skills to cope with violence in their neighborhoods. But prosecutors said the funds were ultimately used to pay for a vacation to Columbia, Maryland, in which Cannon-Grant and her husband spent hundreds of dollars on nail salon services, meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp, and cash ATM withdraws,” the piece stated.

Back in 2019, Cannon-Grant also cashed a $500 charitable contribution into her personal checking account that was supposed to go toward supporting a “Black Women & Marginalized Genders” conference that was to be co-hosted by her charity, the indictment says.

Cannon-Grant’s lawyer, Robert Goldstein, stated on Tuesday that he’s “extremely disappointed the government rushed to judgment here.”

“VIB and Monica have been fully cooperating, and their production of records remains ongoing,” Goldstein remarked. “Drawing conclusions from an incomplete factual record does not represent the fair and fully informed process a citizen deserves from its government, especially someone like Monica who has worked tirelessly on behalf of her community.”

Cannon-Grant has denied the charges — of course — but did not respond to any questions offered by reporters as she exited the federal courthouse on Tuesday.

Here is Monica Cannon-Grant leaving the Moakley federal courthouse. She did not want to make a comment, and left in a black SUV. Her lead defense attorney Robert Goldstein says he is very disappointed by her arrest and they’ve been cooperating fully with investigators. pic.twitter.com/GYjaThkgKV

— Jonathan Hall (@JHall7news) March 15, 2022

A judge authorized Cannon-Grant to continue working at the charity while her case progresses through the system, but she was barred from being able to handle finances.

“Cannon-Grant acknowledged in a podcast filmed on March 3 that she has been under federal investigation since October. She said that members of the black community, jealous of her success, ‘partnered with white supremacy’ to take her down,” the report noted.

“In 2020, we went from a $40,000-, $50,000-a-year organization to a [multimillion-dollar] organization — more money, more problems,” Cannon-Grant went on to say. “The moment funding started coming in and the world started seeing us doing the work, which prompted awards and accolades, it was, ‘I want what she got. She don’t deserve it.'”

Cannon-Grant was named “Bostonian of the Year” by the Boston Globe Magazine in 2020. This was the same year that she was also honored by Boston Magazine as the year’s best social justice advocate.

Violence in Boston does not have any known ties to the national BLM group.

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