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Boston Mayor Wu says Tania Fernandes Anderson should step aside after arrest
BOSTON – Boston Mayor Michelle Wu called for the resignation of Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson after she was arrested on Friday for corruption charges.
Mayor Wu speaks on Fernandes Anderson arrest
The mayor says there is a legal process that needs to play out, but that she believes the councilor should step aside for the sake of the credibility of the Boston City Council.
“I think we’re all just learning and seeing what’s unfolding as the allegations are coming out and we’ll continue to follow how the facts unfold,” Wu said.
“The charges are serious enough that I believe it is of the nature that is going to undermine the ability for the public to trust and have effective representation. I think I made my views clear on that,” Wu said.
Wu says she has not spoken to Fernandes Anderson directly since her court appearance. Wu said she plans to work with Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune and the council as a whole to move things forward.
“We have to hold ourselves to the highest standards in particular at the city level when the responsibilities under our charge are the ones that impact people’s lives the most,” Wu said.
Wu released a statement on Friday saying, “But the serious nature of these charges undermine the public trust and will prevent her from effectively serving the city. I urge Councilor Fernandes Anderson to resign.”
Tania Fernandes Anderson arrested
Councilor Fernandes Anderson was arrested on Friday morning and charged with wire fraud, theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, and forfeiture allegations, according to an indictment.
Fernandes Anderson is accused of taking a $7,000 kickback in a pre-arranged deal with a staff member who she was related to, authorities said. It happened in 2023 after she hired the relative in 2022, the indictment said.
The relative, identified as “Staff Member A” in the indictment, was hired with a salary of $65,000 a year and allegedly received a $13,000 bonus in May of 2023. Staff Member A later gave Fernandes Anderson $7,000 of that bonus in a Boston City Hall bathroom on June 9, 2023, the indictment said.
The indictment said that the staff member was not an immediate family member. Fernandes Anderson is also accused of lying to the city by hiding the fact that the staff member was related to her.
She faces up to 20 years in prison for the wire fraud charges and up to 10 years in prison for the theft charge. She was released by the judge on a number of conditions including that she stays in Massachusetts and surrenders her passport.
Who is Tania Fernandes Anderson?
Tania Fernandes Anderson is a 45-year-old Boston City Councilor who lives in Dorchester. She represents District 7 in Boston, which includes Dorchester, Fenway, Roxbury, and parts of the South End. She was elected to her first two-year term in November of 2021 and was re-elected in 2023.
This is not the first time Fernandes Anderson was accused of hiring a family member. She hired her sister as director of constituent services shortly after she was elected in 2021. She gave her sister a $65,000 salary before raising it to $70,000 and giving her a $7,000 bonus in 2022. She later hired her son in June 2022 as her office manager, making $52,000 a year. A few weeks later, she gave him an $18,000 raise.
She was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine by the state ethics committee after she admitted that she had hired her son and sister to her staff. The committee said that her hiring her family member violated conflict of interest laws.
Investigators said that she was facing financial difficulty in mid-2023.
“When faced with financial hardship and that State Ethics Commission $5,000 sanction, Ms. Fernandes Anderson chose to violate her fiduciary duty and defraud the city of Boston, the indictment alleges, rather than find a legal means to pay off that debt,” U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua Levy said.
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Gray, acquired in a November trade from the St. Louis Cardinals, was one of Boston’s key rotation additions, along with Ranger Suarez, in the offseason. He was 14-8 with a 4.28 ERA in 2025.
“He’s very specific about his work. Every day has a purpose,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of Gray. “Two hundred strikeouts, that’s something that we were looking for. The competitor. Every five days, this guy is going to give you everything.”
In his five career appearances against the Reds, Gray is 1-3 with a 4.18 ERA.
“It’s pretty much one of the only things that is continuing to push me, is to get to a World Series, to win a World Series, to pitch in big games,” said Gray. “I love the moment, and I am chasing that moment.”
Here’s the preview:
RED SOX (1-0): TBA
Pitching: RHP Sonny Gray
REDS (0-1): TBA
Pitching: RHP Brady Singer
Time: 4:10 p.m.
TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7
Red Sox vs. Singer: Wilyer Abreu 2-5, Roman Anthony 1-2, Willson Contreras 2-7, Jarren Duran 3-10, Caleb Durbin 0-1, Isiah Kiner-Falefa 6-16, Marcelo Mayer 0-1, Andruw Monasterio 1-4, Carlos Narváez 1-1, Ceddanne Rafaela 1-5, Trevor Story 0-4, Connor Wong 2-8, Masataka Yoshida 2-7
Reds vs. Gray: Will Benson 0-5, Elly De La Cruz 5-11, TJ Friedl 1-8, Ke’Bryan Hayes 4-17, Nathaniel Lowe 2-10, Noelvi Marte 0-5, Matt McLain 2-2, Spencer Steer 4-9, Tyler Stephenson 0-8, Eugenio Suárez 7-13, Jose Trevino 0-2
Stat of the day: Sal Stewart become the first Cincinnati rookie since 1958 to record three hits on Opening Day.
Notes: Cincinnati sends righthander Brady Singer (14-12, 4.03 in 2025) to the mound … With Hunter Greene and Nick Lodolo already on the injured list to start the season, Singer is considered one of Cincinnati’s most durable pitchers, leading the Reds with 32 starts last season … Singer has made five career starts against Boston, posting a 2-2 record with a 4.88 ERA over 24 innings … His last appearance against the Red Sox, on July 1 in Boston, ended after just three innings when he allowed two earned runs on three hits.
Cam Kerry can be reached at cam.kerry@globe.com.
Nearly three months since assuming office as mayor of Everett, Massachusetts, Mayor Robert Van Campen isn’t wasting any time.
The former city councilor ousted 18-year incumbent Carlo DeMaria in decisive fashion last November, but even so, issues surrounding his predecessor still linger at City Hall.
A state-led salary audit of DeMaria found $180,000 in overpayment, a finding the former mayor disputes. Van Campen says the city is monitoring ongoing investigations.
“What I’ve conveyed to my partners in government here, locally, is to allow that state process to play itself out, and then we, as a community, will make a decision,” the mayor said. “In addition to that, I recently met with Inspector General Jeff Shapiro, who visited me at City Hall. We had a great conversation about transparency in government, best practices, putting in the right systems to ensure that that type of financial oversight doesn’t happen in the future.”
Beyond the audit, Van Campen is placing emphasis on school overcrowding.
“My objective is to try to implement solutions as quickly as I can,” he said. “Our high school today, which was built for I think 1,650 students, now houses around 2,200.”
The World Cup is creating buzz across Massachusetts, including in Everett, where the Kraft Group is looking to build a soccer stadium.
To alleviate that problem, the mayor is using federal ARPA funds to repair the old Everett High School and seeking out other spaces that could be used in the future.
“Would I like to build out new classroom space for the students of Everett in the next one to two years? Yes, that’s my ideal,” Van Campen said. “But I want to make sure that if we do it on a quick timeline, it’s done in a correct and proper fashion.”
Also in focus for the mayor is a new soccer stadium for the New England Revolution on the shores of the Mystic River.
The Kraft Group, Boston, Everett and the state Legislature have all taken steps to make the project a reality, but Van Campen says there’s still more work to do.
“It’s a transformative project, it’s a breathtaking project,” said Van Campen. “But I’ve been clear with all the stakeholders around that project, and the other larger developments going on down there, that we have to make sure that transit issues are comprehensively addressed, that pedestrian access issues are comprehensively addressed, that all those issues have to be addressed to perfection in order for these projects to succeed.”
Tune in on Sunday, March 29 at 9:30 a.m. for our extended @Issue Sit Down with Van Campen.
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