Monica Cannon-Grant, the former leader of the Violence in Boston nonprofit, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to more than a dozen charges of fraud linked to her non-profit, COVID-19 relief funds and tax filings.
Federal officials say the 44-year-old from Taunton made misrepresentations to get thousands of dollars in donations to the Violence in Boston non-profit that she then used for personal expenses.
Cannon-Grant defrauded the City of Boston out of pandemic relief funds, rental assistance money, defrauded the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office out of Community Reinvestment Grant funds, filed false tax returns for two years and failed to file tax returns for two years, officials said.
She pleaded guilty to 18 counts and her sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 29, 2026. Officials charged Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant, in a 27-count indictment in March 2023. Grant’s charges were dismissed in May 2023 due to his death.
Violence in Boston was an anti-violence nonprofit founded in 2017 with the goal of reducing violence, raising social awareness and aiding community causes in Greater Boston.
From 2017 to 2020, Cannon-Grant represented herself as an uncompensated nonprofit director to donors and other charitable organizations, officials said. --->READ MORE HERE
A Rochester company is paying $1.8 million to resolve allegations that it got loans for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) from the Small Business Administration (SBA) when they weren’t eligible for them.
The PPP was a program made in 2020 to provide emergency funds to businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses could get forgivable loans from the SBA. There were eligibility restrictions to the loans, such as the number of employees, including the employees of a foreign affiliate. Applicants for the second draw PPP loans had to have fewer than 300 employees.
This is where Durst Image Technology US LLC (Durst) obtained a second draw PPP loan in 2021 that it wasn’t actually eligible for, as Durst was a subsidiary of an Italian company with multiple subsidiaries worldwide at that time, with more than 300 employees. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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