A federal judge has ordered former community organizer Monica Cannon-Grant to repay $224,000 tied to fraud that included embezzling from her nonprofit, Violence in Boston.
In January, Cannon-Grant was sentenced to four years probation, six months of home detention and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty last year to 18 counts ranging from wire fraud to filing false tax returns.
In 2022, Cannon-Grant and her then-husband Clark Grant were charged in a sweeping federal indictment that alleged they used the Violence in Boston donations for vacations and personal expenses. Donations came from individuals, but also the Suffolk County district attorney’s office and the city of Boston. The couple was also accused of collecting pandemic unemployment and rental benefits they weren’t owed…