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Boston activist Monica Cannon-Grant to plead guilty in federal fraud case





... Behind the scenes, however, prosecutors allege Cannon-Grant and her late husband, Clark Grant, were defrauding people who donated to the nonprofit and instead spending the funds on hotels, gas, restaurants, food deliveries, nail salons, and travel. ...

The initial indictment accused Cannon-Grant and her husband not only of defrauding donors, but lying on a mortgage application and illegally collecting roughly $100,000 in unemployment benefits.

“Unemployment caught my ass!” Cannon-Grant allegedly texted her husband in March 2021. “Asked me to provide documents by June unless I’ll have to pay it all back.”

Additional fraud charges brought in 2023 accused the couple of leveraging their nonprofit for pandemic assistance and lying to obtain rent relief funds intended for Boston residents facing housing insecurity.

Cannon-Grant is charged in a 27-count superseding indictment with charges including conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements on a mortgage application, and tax violations.

She could face decades in federal prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines if convicted.

Federal prosecutors have charged the executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City (BLM OKC) with wire fraud and money laundering, alleging she siphoned off more than $3.15 million in donation money to fund her lavish lifestyle.

Investigators found that Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson diverted millions in returned bail checks and funneled the money into her personal bank accounts over five years.

According to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday, Dickerson, 52, allegedly rerouted funds intended for the group’s bail initiatives and social-justice programming into accounts she controlled between June 2020 and October 2025.

Prosecutors say Dickerson used the money “for her personal benefit,” including luxury travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, “tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping,” more than $50,000 in food delivery purchases, a vehicle, and six real properties.