Overview
- U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley set forfeiture at $224,063, covering about $181,000 in diverted donations, more than $33,000 in fraudulent unemployment benefits, and roughly $12,600 in rent aid.
- The new order sits alongside $106,003 in restitution and a January sentence of six months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service, and four years of probation.
- Forfeiture strips illegal gains for the government, while restitution aims to repay victims, so defendants can owe both at once in federal fraud cases.
- Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty in September to 18 counts that included wire and mail fraud and tax crimes, as prosecutors detailed donor diversion and pandemic relief fraud; nine mortgage-related counts were dropped.
- Her lawyers said she accepts forfeiture but sought a smaller sum due to limited means, while coverage ranged from Boston outlets outlining the legal math to right-leaning sites casting the case as a Black Lives Matter scandal.