BLM Activist Ordered to Pay Back $224,000 in COVID Relief Funds, Donations

Monica Cannon-Grant was sentenced to six months of home confinement.
BLM Activist Ordered to Pay Back $224,000 in COVID Relief Funds, Donations
Monica Cannon-Grant (C) speaks during a Black Lives Matter rally in Boston on June 22, 2020. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston was ordered on March 23 to pay back more than $224,000 in pandemic relief funds and donations to her nonprofit.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty last fall to multiple fraud charges and filing false tax returns. She was sentenced to serve six months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and four years of probation.

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