Monica Cannon-Grant may face fresh indictment in Violence in Boston charity fraud case, filing shows

A brand new submitting within the federal case in opposition to Boston activist Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, who prosecutors allege ran their charity Violence in Boston as a private money cow, exhibits there might be modifications to or contemporary fees added in opposition to the couple.

“The federal government has suggested that it intends on in search of a superseding indictment,” attorneys write within the fourth part of the Friday submitting, which is primarily a joint standing report within the case relating to proof discovery.

There was no indication within the doc what that potential new indictment would entail. Legal professionals for all three events — the defendants are represented individually — weren’t instantly accessible when the Herald known as for remark late Friday afternoon.

A superseding indictment “can embody totally different fees, new fees, or add new defendants,” in accordance with the web site of Washington, D.C. regulation agency Burnham & Gorokhov. Identical to the primary indictment, any superseding indictments must be obtained by way of a grand jury and would change the unique indictment.

Protection attorneys have sought a deadline for the proposed superseding indictment, in accordance with the submitting, however prosecutors oppose setting doing so. Each events say they want to tackle this concern on the subsequent listening to.

Cannon-Grant on Wednesday filed a movement requesting a speedy trial be set. Within the newest submitting, all events request that the scheduled Could 23 preliminary standing convention be canceled — which the courtroom did in a while Friday — and changed by an interim standing convention be scheduled for the week of June 27.

Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant face 18 counts from a federal indictment unsealed on March 15: two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one depend of conspiracy, one depend of mail fraud – aiding and abetting, 13 counts of wire fraud – aiding and abetting, and one depend of creating false statements to a mortgage lending enterprise – aiding and abetting.

The newest submitting reviews that prosecutors have already rolled out about 1,344 particular person items of proof — practically 15,000 pages in whole — of their discovery course of. The federal government provides that they’re nonetheless anticipating “uncooked search warrant returns for 4 Google accounts” that ought to quantity to 247,326 digital information throughout 26.5 gigabytes.

The Taunton-based couple pleaded not responsible at their digital arraignment March 29.

Prosecutors allege the pair illegitimately used income solicited and acquired by the charity — donations meant to “enhance the standard of life and life outcomes of people from underserved communities,” in accordance with the VIB web site — to complement their very own lives.

That features meal purchases, nail salon visits, private investments, an undisclosed six-figure wage for Cannon-Grant and laundering a grant by way of a Virginia financial institution to pay Cannon-Grant’s again lease.