Boston BLM leader and her husband hit with federal fraud, conspiracy charges

[Common Sense 1]

Righties root against Black Lives Matter because of what it stands for, not because of a few rogues that act up.

Making up more silly crap? Why?
Over and over the same thing.
18 count indictment and that is the best you can do.

 

[brianpatrick]

Making up more silly crap? Why?
Over and over the same thing.
18 count indictment and that is the best you can do.

Oh wait, I didn’t really read the article. Didn’t realize it was 18! Counts! That changes everything for me.

 

[TheParser]

No one is actually surprised!

Nevertheless, corporations will continue to make "donations."

 

[Ginger Ale]

"This is about Racism!!!!!"

Now now, settle down there party of white. They aren't convicted yet. Let's let the law do it's job first before you get all excited.

 

[brianpatrick]

Now now, settle down there party of white. They aren't convicted yet. Let's let the law do it's job first before you get all excited.

I think one state at least put hanging and firing squad back into the capital punishment repertoire. Probably fueling some excitement.

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Both were charged with a 18-count indictment for fraud and conspiracy. The dollar amount is in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars.

Boston BLM leader and her husband hit with federal fraud, conspiracy charges​

Boston BLM leader and her husband hit with federal fraud, conspiracy charges

Federal authorities allege that Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant have defrauded a large sum of donor dollars out of over $1 million in grants and donations given to their nonprofit, Violence in Boston, which aims to help violence survivors in the city.

www.foxnews.com

Monica Cannon-Grant, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader in Boston, and her husband, Clark Grant, were hit with an 18-page federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy on Tuesday.
Federal authorities allege that Cannon-Grant and Grant have defrauded a large sum of donor dollars out of over $1 million in grants and donations given to their nonprofit, Violence in Boston, which aims to help violence survivors in the city.

Cannon-Grant, a prominent BLM organizer, was arrested outside of her Beantown home Tuesday and declined to comment at the courthouse after being released on personal recognizance, meaning she'll remain free without bail but with a written promise to appear in court.





Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Massachusetts

Founders of Boston Nonprofit Indicted on Fraud Charges​

Defendants allegedly defrauded donors and grant issuers, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business​

BOSTON – The founders of a local nonprofit, Violence in Boston (VIB), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of alleged schemes designed to defraud VIB and its donors, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business based in Chicago.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, and her husband Clark Grant, 38, both of Taunton, were charged in an 18-count indictment with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy; one count of conspiracy; 13 counts of wire fraud; and one count of making false statements to a mortgage lending business. The indictment also charges Cannon-Grant with one count of mail fraud.
Cannon-Grant was arrested this morning and will make her initial appearance in federal court in Boston later today. Grant was previously charged 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 by the Court.
Cannon-Grant is the founder and CEO of VIB, an anti-violence nonprofit formally established in 2017, the stated purpose of which is to reduce violence, raise social awareness and aid community causes in Boston, among other purposes. Grant is Cannon-Grant’s husband, a founding director of VIB, and until recently a full-time employee for a commuter services company since July 2018.
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.

Founders of Boston Nonprofit Indicted on Fraud Charges

BOSTON – The founders of a local nonprofit, Violence in Boston (VIB), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of alleged schemes designed to defraud VIB and its donors, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business based in...

www.justice.gov

You know what they say. You can take the man out of the ghetto....but you cant take the ghetto out of the man unfortunately CS1.

I am extremely disappointed to see this criminal behavior from the domestic terror group BLM. Disappointed....but not at all surprised really.

My words and challenge to BLM and all blacks everywhere would be: Be like Barack!!! Not like Li'l Wayne!!!

 

[brianpatrick]

You know what they say. You can take the man out of the ghetto....but you cant take the ghetto out of the man unfortunately CS1.

I am extremely disappointed to see this criminal behavior from the domestic terror group BLM. Disappointed....but not at all surprised really.

My words and challenge to BLM and all blacks everywhere would be: Be like Barack!!! Not like Li'l Wayne!!!

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Wow.

Ok, I think we can just end this thread here. This puts a nice cap on all my posts. The best part is the righties hated Barak too.

 

[Credence]

Glad they got caught. They betrayed their group and defrauded them which took money intended for victims. Shame on them.
They deserve what they get

Could do without the racist comments in the thread. GAH

 

[CLAX1911]

Both were charged with a 18-count indictment for fraud and conspiracy. The dollar amount is in the neighborhood of 1 million dollars.

Boston BLM leader and her husband hit with federal fraud, conspiracy charges​

Boston BLM leader and her husband hit with federal fraud, conspiracy charges

Federal authorities allege that Monica Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant have defrauded a large sum of donor dollars out of over $1 million in grants and donations given to their nonprofit, Violence in Boston, which aims to help violence survivors in the city.

www.foxnews.com

Monica Cannon-Grant, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader in Boston, and her husband, Clark Grant, were hit with an 18-page federal indictment for fraud and conspiracy on Tuesday.
Federal authorities allege that Cannon-Grant and Grant have defrauded a large sum of donor dollars out of over $1 million in grants and donations given to their nonprofit, Violence in Boston, which aims to help violence survivors in the city.

Cannon-Grant, a prominent BLM organizer, was arrested outside of her Beantown home Tuesday and declined to comment at the courthouse after being released on personal recognizance, meaning she'll remain free without bail but with a written promise to appear in court.





Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Massachusetts

Founders of Boston Nonprofit Indicted on Fraud Charges​

Defendants allegedly defrauded donors and grant issuers, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business​

BOSTON – The founders of a local nonprofit, Violence in Boston (VIB), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of alleged schemes designed to defraud VIB and its donors, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business based in Chicago.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, and her husband Clark Grant, 38, both of Taunton, were charged in an 18-count indictment with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy; one count of conspiracy; 13 counts of wire fraud; and one count of making false statements to a mortgage lending business. The indictment also charges Cannon-Grant with one count of mail fraud.
Cannon-Grant was arrested this morning and will make her initial appearance in federal court in Boston later today. Grant was previously charged 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 by the Court.
Cannon-Grant is the founder and CEO of VIB, an anti-violence nonprofit formally established in 2017, the stated purpose of which is to reduce violence, raise social awareness and aid community causes in Boston, among other purposes. Grant is Cannon-Grant’s husband, a founding director of VIB, and until recently a full-time employee for a commuter services company since July 2018.
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.

Founders of Boston Nonprofit Indicted on Fraud Charges

BOSTON – The founders of a local nonprofit, Violence in Boston (VIB), have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a series of alleged schemes designed to defraud VIB and its donors, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business based in...

www.justice.gov

If the Smollett fiasco tells us anything it's that they likely won't get punished.

 

[VySky]

No offense but there's plenty of motive to drum up charges on BLM members. I'll wait to comment when it's a conviction, not charges.

Do you treat all cases like that? Or just inconvenient ones.

 

[Antiwar]

You know what they say. You can take the man out of the ghetto....but you cant take the ghetto out of the man unfortunately CS1.

I am extremely disappointed to see this criminal behavior from the domestic terror group BLM. Disappointed....but not at all surprised really.

My words and challenge to BLM and all blacks everywhere would be: Be like Barack!!! Not like Li'l Wayne!!!

Are you saying you want all black men to increase the War on Terror to more countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Drones and such for "the ghetto"? Maybe you want them to bail out the banks with all of ~their drug and rap money~?

 

[Schism]

Womp-womp for them.

Imagine what a person's agenda must be to try to smear the idea that black peoples' lives matter as much as anyone else's by obsessively reporting every last bad thing you can find about a member of the organization called "Black Lives Matter".

It's not like these people just don't know that the BLM slogan is incomparably larger than the BLM organization, and that nobody goes around demanding membership cards from people who write "Black Lives Matter" on a sign before a protest. And even if that weren't true, which it is, you'd still just be smearing a group using an individual member here and there.



#BLM
#****MAGA

Here's the issue with your dramatic speech: the founders of BLM had an opportunity to lead in the right way, with integrity, true to a set of principles, sacrificing for the cause greater than them, but instead cashed-in on grift and got caught.

What you don't want to address is that this is the same M.O. for every Democratic Party run city in the country: corruption, misuse of funds, insider sweetheart deals. Put-leeze spare me the fainting couch.

 

[BlueTex]

They just need a pardon..

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[brianpatrick]

If the Smollett fiasco tells us anything it's that they likely won't get punished.

Maybe when we change 2A we can go in and get rid of double jeopardy. Then we can keep one more black guy in jail where he belongs, right?

 

[brianpatrick]

Do you treat all cases like that? Or just inconvenient ones.

The courts do. It’s in the constitution.

 

[brianpatrick]

Here's the issue with your dramatic speech: the founders of BLM had an opportunity to lead in the right way, with integrity, true to a set of principles, sacrificing for the cause greater than them, but instead cashed-in on grift and got caught.

What you don't want to address is that this is the same M.O. for every Democratic Party run city in the country: corruption, misuse of funds, insider sweetheart deals. Put-leeze spare me the fainting couch.

Heh, every republican run city too. The US does need some kind of corruption protections figured out. My gramps worked in Chicago in the 70’s. If you didn’t meet the inspector with a fifty in your hand you probably weren’t passing inspection. It’s gotten a lot harder to do things that way. Too many cameras and microphones everywhere, but corruption in politics happens at the highest levels everywhere. Not all people. Not even most people. This case is a sign that law enforcement is, overall, working. Or at least we’re trying.

 

[CLAX1911]

Maybe when we change 2A we can go in and get rid of double jeopardy. Then we can keep one more black guy in jail where he belongs, right?

He wasn't even charged for a hate crime even though he committed one.

That's not a punishment for black people even if they commit those crimes. And they do you remember that stop Asian hate thing that was trending a few months ago well they kind of abandoned that because they found out the people attacking these Asians randomly were black. And we have to pretend they're crimes are not crimes because there was slavery once or some stupid shit like that.

 

[brianpatrick]

He wasn't even charged for a hate crime even though he committed one.

That's not a punishment for black people even if they commit those crimes. And they do you remember that stop Asian hate thing that was trending a few months ago well they kind of abandoned that because they found out the people attacking these Asians randomly were black. And we have to pretend they're crimes are not crimes because there was slavery once or some stupid shit like that.

Ku Klux clax?

 

[brianpatrick]

He wasn't even charged for a hate crime even though he committed one.

That's not a punishment for black people even if they commit those crimes. And they do you remember that stop Asian hate thing that was trending a few months ago well they kind of abandoned that because they found out the people attacking these Asians randomly were black. And we have to pretend they're crimes are not crimes because there was slavery once or some stupid shit like that.

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