A activist has been charged over a huge fraud which is said to have included blowing a grant intended for young men at risk of violence on trips to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Shake Shack. Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, is also said to have paid herself $2,700-a-week and treated herself to a $440,000 five-bed house in Taunton, , using much of the $1 million raised by her nonprofit Violence in Boston Inc for good causes. Her salary jumped from $25,000 in 2020 to $170,000 in 2021.Cannon-Grant - once named a Bostonian of the Year by the prestigious Boston Globe newspaper, was arrested last fall, and appeared in a federal court Monday alongside husband Clark Grant, 38, with the pair facing 18 separate criminal counts dating from 2017 to July 2021. She has denied all allegations made against her.
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