"Just weeks out from her trial on federal fraud charges, embattled Boston-based community organizer Monica Cannon-Grant has filed notice that she plans to plead guilty. Friday's one-page filing does not say whether Cannon-Grant intends to change her plea on some or all of her charges, or whether she has reached a plea deal with prosecutors."
"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 pair were indicted on numerous charges in 2022, but Clark Grant was killed in a motorcycle crash a year later."
"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.""
Monica Cannon-Grant filed notice that she intends to plead guilty to federal fraud charges shortly before a trial scheduled for Oct. 14. The one-page filing did not specify whether the change of plea applies to all charges or whether a plea agreement exists, but prosecutors agreed to a change-of-plea hearing and no date has been set. Prosecutors allege Cannon-Grant and her late husband misused nonprofit donations on personal expenses and submitted false mortgage and unemployment benefit claims, with additional 2023 charges alleging misuse of pandemic assistance and false rent-relief claims.
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