Blog #178 BLM Leader to Plead GUILTY. Are you Surprised?
Indicted BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant to plead guilty to 18 charges
Boston Herald
Monica Cannon-Grant, seen leaving the federal Moakley Courthouse after her arraignment on March 15, 2022, in Boston, has agreed to plead guilty to 18 of the 27 counts against her. (Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)
By Flint McColgan | flint.mccolgan@bostonherald.com
UPDATED: September 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM EDT
Indicted BLM charity fraudster Monica Cannon-Grant will plead guilty to 18 of the 27 federal charges against her, according to a plea agreement filed today.
Federal prosecutors recommend a sentence of 18 to 24 months in prison, which the agreement states is at the “low end of the Guidelines sentencing range.”
A change of plea motion was filed and granted in her federal case in Boston last Friday but the hearing has not been scheduled. The new filing today gives details on what she intends to do.
The plea agreement says that Cannon-Grant has agreed to plead guilty to 10 counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud; three counts of wire fraud conspiracy; one count of aiding and abetting mail fraud; two counts of filing false tax returns; and two counts of failure to file tax returns.
In exchange for this change of plea, federal prosecutors have agreed to drop a count of conspiracy, seven counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud, and a count of making false statements to a mortgage lending business.
Federal prosecutors first charged Cannon-Grant and her husband Clark Grant in March 2022 with 18 fraud-related counts regarding the misuse of funds donated to the couple’s charity, Violence in Boston. Federal prosecutors subsequently issued a superseding indictment one year later charging them with 27 counts, including the charges related in this plea agreement.
Clark Grant has since died and the charges against him have been dropped.
Federal prosecutors charged Cannon-Grant with what they deemed three distinct conspiracies: The first is the misuse of donations to the couple’s charity Violence in Boston (VIB) for personal use, the second is the misuse of public funds — including the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program — and the third is alleged fraud related to the mortgage on the couple’s Taunton home.
“From 2017 to 2021, Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant, through VIB fundraising, solicited and received over a million dollars in donations and grants from individuals, charitable institutions, and other entities,” the superseding indictment stated.
This is a developing story.