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Bostonian of the year: BLM activist whose nonprofit raised $1M is charged with squandering much of it on Bubba Gump Shrimp sprees etc,

BLM’s Monica Cannon-Grant – do not come between her and a shrimp roll.

A BLM activist and her husband are accused of collecting approximately $33,426 in unemployment payments and using an unspecified amount of donation money to treat themselves to meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., vacations and trips to the nail salon.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, and her husband, Clark Grant, 38, of Taunton, Massachusetts, who founded the non-profit organization Violence in Boston, were charged in an 18-count indictment with wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements to a mortgage lending business, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday.

Cannon-Grant also faces a mail fraud count. She has denied all allegations made against her.

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