Longtime Boston community activist Monica Cannon-Grant is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in connection with a federal fraud case after she agreed to a plea deal last year.
Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty in September of 2025 to 18 of the 27 counts in a scheme that federal prosecutors said involved her and her late husband pocketing thousands of dollars in donations to their nonprofit. She admitted to wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, mail fraud, filing false tax returns and failing to file tax returns, prosecutors said. She’s due for sentencing on Jan. 29.
Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of 18 months in prison and money forfeiture.
Cannon-Grant and her late husband Clark Grant were indicted by a federal grand jury in 2022 on 18 counts for diverting funds from their Violence in Boston nonprofit for personal expenses and collecting about $100,000 in illegal unemployment benefits, among other charges.
Cannon-Grant’s activism, including the organization of a rally in the city in 2020 to protest the killing of George Floyd and other Black people by police, earned her numerous awards, such as The Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonian of the Year award and a Boston Celtics Heroes Among Us award, both in 2020.
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