A activist charged with fraud who claimed she was paid no salary is accused of pocketing more than $160,000 from her Violence in Boston charity, which she said she started because 'shooters are victims.' Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, who founded the non-profit organization Violence in Boston, claimed the charity didn't pay any salary, but an 18-count indictment alleges that she paid herself $2,788 a week, taking home $25,096 in 2020 and $170,092 last year, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday.The Violence in Boston charity received significant attention at the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020, when the murder of by police bolstered the nation’s racial justice movement.
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