Crime Activist Monica Cannon-Grant sentenced to probation, home confinement for slew of fraud charges The former CEO of the Violence in Boston nonprofit was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in September 2025. Monica Cannon-Grant was sentenced Thursday to four years of probation and six months of home detention. In September 2025, Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to 18 charges, including 10 counts of wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of mail fraud, two counts of filing false tax returns, and two counts of failing to file tax returns. In July 2022, VIB was shut down amid the fraud charges. Cannon-Grant faced further tax charges for falsifying her 2017 and 2018 tax returns and failing to file her 2019 and 2020 tax returns, according to prosecutors.