AdvertisementPlenty of "social activists" arose from that incident, millions of dollars were raised, and it's still not clear where all that money went. But in Boston, we now know where at least some of it went, and the person who squandered it has just pleaded guilty to fraud charges. A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank. “Instead, Cannon-Grant used donations to satisfy her own greed, while falsely portraying herself as a legitimate nonprofit organizer. But fraud is still fraud, and now Cannon-Grant is learning this the hard way.