Department of Justice Press Release Partners of Boston's Violence for Justice Indicted on Fraud Charges. Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant used charitable donations including from BLM for personal benefit.
According to the United States Dept. of Justive,
Cannon-Grant is the founder and CEO of VIB [Violence in Boston].
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 while concealing such expenditures from VIB directors, officers and others. Specifically, from 2017 through at least 2020, it is alleged that Cannon-Grant and Grant exercised exclusive control over VIB financial accounts and diverted VIB money to themselves through cash withdrawals, cashed checks, debit purchases and transfers to their personal bank accounts.
On numerous occasions between 2017 through 2021, Cannon-Grant allegedly applied for public and private funded grants and donations in which she represented the funds were to be used for VIB charitable purposes. However, it is alleged that Cannon-Grant and Grant used grant and donation money to pay for personal expenses including, among other things,
- hotel reservations
- groceries
- gas; car rentals
- auto repairs
- Uber rides
- restaurants
- food deliveries
- nail salons
- personal travel.
The defendants did not disclose to other VIB directors or VIB’s bookkeepers or financial auditors that they had used VIB funds for such payments.
The defendants also allegedly conspired to defraud the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) by collecting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits while at the same time collecting income from a variety of sources, including VIB funds utilized for Cannon-Grant and Grant’s personal expenses, consulting fees paid to Cannon-Grant, compensation paid directly by VIB to Cannon-Grant, and the annual salary paid to Grant by his employer for his full-time job.
According to the indictment, beginning in or about May 2020 through 2021, Grant and Cannon-Grant fraudulently applied for PUA benefits, created by Congress in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, that they knew they were not eligible to receive. The defendants allegedly coordinated the submission of false online applications and certifications for PUA funds, concealed their income, used the fraudulently obtained PUA funds to pay for their joint household expenses and other personal expenditures, and created and submitted phony documentation in order to continue receiving weekly PUA COVID-19 benefits.
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/founders-boston-nonprofit-indicted-fraud-charges
According to the Washington Examiner
A prominent Black Lives Matter activist honored as "Bostonian of the Year" in 2020 was indicted on Tuesday alongside her husband on accusations of treating an anti-violence charity as a personal piggy bank.
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.
As Cannon-Grant's profile grew in 2020 during the nationwide unrest that followed George Floyd's killing, so too did 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 wrote in the 18-count indictment , saying that she began paying herself $2,788 per week from Violence in Boston beginning in October 2020.
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.
One month later, in September 2017, Cannon-Grant allegedly cashed a $10,400 grant to the charity earmarked for meals for needy children in the Boston school system into her personal bank account and subsequently pulled $3,111 from the grant to pay for rent at her Boston residence.
Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant and her husband often made cash withdrawals from Violence in Boston's bank account 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.
Also in 2019, Cannon-Grant cashed a $500 charitable contribution into her personal checking account that was intended to support a "Black Women & Marginalized Genders" conference co-hosted by her charity, the indictment alleges.
Cannon-Grant was dubbed "Bostonian of the Year" by Boston Globe Magazine in 2020. The same year, she was also honored by Boston Magazine as the year's best social justice advocate.
According to the New York Post,
A high-profile social justice activist in Boston and her husband used a nonprofit they founded to scam at least $185,000 from donors who included a Black Lives Matter chapter and the local district attorney’s office, federal authorities allege.
Cannon-Grant, 41, and Grant, 38, established the nonprofit in 2017, the same year she made headlines for helping organize a “Fight Supremacy” march in Boston following the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.
In a 2019 interview, she boasted of having the personal cellphone numbers of then-Mayor Marty Walsh, now the US secretary of labor; the current mayor, Michelle Wu, who was a council member at the time; and the local district attorney.
One of the earliest victims of the alleged fraud scheme was the Cambridge, Mass., chapter of Black Lives Matter, according to an 18-count indictment unsealed against the couple in Boston federal court on Tuesday.
The BLM chapter made a $3,000 donation via PayPal to support Violence in Boston’s program to feed needy children in August 2017, only to have the money secretly transferred two days later to a bank account belonging to one of Cannon-Grant’s family members, the indictment says.
In June 2019, Cannon-Grant also took part in a ceremony at the Suffolk County (Mass.) District Attorney’s Office, where her nonprofit was awarded $6,000 in forfeited assets to take “10 at risk young men” from Boston’s crime-ridden Roxbury neighborhood to a three-day “Violence Prevention Retreat” in Philadelphia.
But instead of using the money that way, Cannon-Grant and her hubby — who at the time had balances of just $1.35 and $21.01 in their personal checking accounts, respectively — allegedly blew it on a trip to Columbia, Md., the following month.
The spending included more than $1,200 at a Sonesta Suites hotel, as well as hundreds more for a rental car, fuel, parking and meals at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Shake Shack and other restaurants in Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland, according to the indictment.
At the time, the Suffolk DA was Rachael Rollins, who last year was named the US attorney for Massachusetts and whose office brought the charges against Cannon-Grant and her husband.
More info can be found here,
https://nypost.com/2022/03/16/boston-blm-leader-husband-charged-with-fraud-conspiracy/
Remember what Black Lives Matter's former leader stated,
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From 3.11.2022
“You have another side of you that is profoundly arrogant and selfish and narcissistic and that bad side of you came out during the course of this,” the judge continued.
“Your performance on the witness stand, this can only be described as pure perjury. You got on the witness stand… you committed hour upon hour upon hour of pure perjury.
“Your very name has become an adverb for lying and I cannot imagine what could be worse than that.”
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Hear the title of this segment from Hamilton's Corner, a Christian Radio Show host and the title of the following segment is BLM is practicing a form of witchcraft
You will hear Patrisse Cullors say she is a trained marxist.
Karl Marx stated, "whatever you are doing, blame the other side!"
What Abe Hamilton describes as a "copy and paste of the Bolshevick Revolution from Russia"
Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported.
was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) on 25 October (Old Style, O.S.; 7 November, New Style or N.S.) 1917. It was the precipitating event of the Russian Civil War.
The October Revolution followed and capitalized on the February Revolution earlier in the year. The February Revolution had overthrown the Tsarist autocracy, resulting in a provisional government. The provisional government had taken power after being proclaimed by Grand Duke Michael, Tsar Nicholas II's younger brother, who declined to take power after the Tsar stepped down.
According to Hamilton's Corner, Marxist will utilize whatever division they can during times of unrest to cause chaos.
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