You might remember #BlackLivesMatter from such hits as Millions of Dollars Are Missing and Patrisse Cullors Owns Four Houses. Well now get ready to laugh again at We Raked OFF Federal Grant Money To Waste On Cheap Crap.
A prominent Black Lives Matter leader in Boston and her husband have been charged with using a $6,000 grant to take at-risk youth to a Philadelphia retreat on themselves – for a getaway to Maryland, restaurants and shopping sprees, among other things.
Monica Cannon-Grant, 41, founder of the nonprofit Violence in Boston, and her husband Clark Grant, 38, were charged Tuesday in an 18-count federal indictment, including charges for wire fraud and making false statements to a mortgage lending business.
In June 2019, she was given a check for $6,000 for a trip to Philly “to give these young men exposure to communities outside of the violence riddled neighborhoods that they navigate daily,” the Boston Globe reported.
Instead, the couple used the money to take a vacation to Maryland, eat at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Shake Shack and other eateries, and pay for car rentals, Walmart purchases and visits to a nail salon, the feds allege.
The indictment charges them in connection with three separate schemes — defrauding donors, lying on a mortgage application and illegally collecting about $100,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits, according to the Globe.
Clark Grant had already been charged by the feds for allegedly engaging in pandemic-assistance fraud after a raid at the couple’s Taunton home last year.
It seems that a single scam is never enough for these people. They always seem to be working multiple scams, all of which rake off money to their own pockets in the name of Social Justice. Heaven forfend that any of them are ever required to actually work for a living.
One marvels at their failure to do any sort of risk/reward analysis on the potential fallout from getting caught in their scams. Is it really worth years in the federal big house to visit Bubba Gump Shrimp?
As the titular protagonist of a famous novel before it was turned into a hit movie once put it, “Being an idiot is no box of chocolates.”
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Boston, Clark Grant, Crime, Democrats, fraud, Monica Cannon-Grant, Philadelphia, Social Justice Warriors, Taunton
“Is it really worth years in the federal big house to visit Bubba Gump Shrimp?”
Well, to be fair, I’ve never actually been to a Bubba F–king Gump Shrimp…
“Is it really worth years in the federal big house to visit Bubba Gump Shrimp?”
I’m not convinced they’ll go to prison, or end up with any punishment beyond a slap on the wrist.
When you have the real leftwing Nazi machine behind you then you get off. Juciy gets convicted then a far left 0bama judge lets him out “pending appeal.” How many other convicts get this treatment? While Jan 6th protestors rot in the DC gulag.
Between black privilege and Marxist privilege, these clowns are nearly immune.
I’ve been to a Bubba Gump. One small.step above Red Lobster. If they had any taste, instead of going for the cheap souvenir glasses they’d have gone to Nick’s. I wonder how the shrimp po boy is in prison.
Somehow they’re the victims in all this