Far-Left City Councilor ARRESTED By FBI For Corruption

Boston city councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has just been arrested by the FBI on federal corruption charges.

Anderson is a controversial far-left Muslim and former illegal immigrant who moved from Africa to America with her family at the age of 10.

She went viral online for screaming, “What the f— do I have to do in this f—ing council in order to get respect as a black woman!” during a council meeting back in 2022.

Now, she is facing allegations of stealing thousands of dollars through a “kickback scheme” she ran to defraud taxpayers.

Allegedly, Anderson conspired with a relative to pay her a whopping $13,000 bonus, which her relative then cashed out and transferred back $7,000 back to her in the City Hall bathroom…

Here are the details:

Tania Fernandes Anderson, a woke BLM Muslim former illegal migrant Democrat serving on the Boston City Council, has been arrested by the FBI after being indicted on five counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud and one count of aiding and abetting theft concerning a program… pic.twitter.com/GxvA2jKgXj

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 6, 2024

I’ve been exposing this lying psychotic fraud Boston City Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson for years. Today she was arrested by the FBI. Here she was in 2022 defending her alleged rapist friend Ricardo Arroyo who was running for DA. “What the fuck do I have to do in this… pic.twitter.com/H6iq7czFNd

— Aidan Kearney (@DoctorTurtleboy) December 6, 2024

Fernandes Anderson has plead not guilty to all charges.

If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison…

CBS News reported:

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested Friday on federal public corruption charges and is accused of taking a $7,000 kickback, authorities said.

According to an indictment, Fernandes Anderson is charged with wire fraud, theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and forfeiture allegations.

The FBI said agents surrounded her home in Dorchester shortly after 6 a.m., called for her to come outside and took her into custody.

In the indictment, federal prosecutors say she hired a relative to her staff in 2022 at a salary of $65,000 a year. The relative, only identified as “Staff member A” in the indictment, allegedly got a $13,000 bonus in May 2023 and then later kicked back $7,000 of it to Fernandes Anderson in a pre-arranged deal.

The indictment claims the staff member gave Fernandes Anderson the $7,000 in cash in a bathroom at Boston City Hall on June 9, 2023.

Fernandes Anderson is also accused of lying to the city by hiding the fact that she was related to the staff member. The indictment said the staffer “was not an immediate family member.”

U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua Levy said a grand jury alleges that Fernandes Anderson hatched the scheme “to funnel bonus payments, taxpayer money into her own pocket.”

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“Public officials who line their pockets with taxpayer money erode the trust and confidence of the public in the officials who serve them,” Levy said.

Fernandes Anderson is the first Boston City Councilor to be indicted since the late Chuck Turner was found guilty of accepting a $1,000 bribe and lying to FBI agents in 2010.

“It’s like déjà vu all over again,” said Stephen J. Kelleher, the assistant special agent in charge of FBI Boston. “Another Boston City councilor is accused of embracing a culture of cashing in at the expense of the public good.”

ernandes Anderson appeared in federal court Friday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to all charges. She faces up to 20 years in prison for the wire fraud charges and up to 10 years for the theft charge.

Fernandes Anderson asked Judge Donald Cabell to appoint a public defender for her, as she is unable to afford a lawyer.

The judge said Fernandes Anderson can be released if she follows a number of conditions, including staying in Massachusetts, surrendering her passport.

The Daily Caller added:

Each count of wire fraud carries a maximum 20 year prison sentence and the count for “theft concerning programs receiving federal funds” provides for a maximum sentence of 10 years, according to the press release.

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Fernandes Anderson, who moved with her family to the United States as an undocumented immigrant from the African country of Cape Verde when she was ten years old, frequently courted controversy while serving on the Boston City Council. Less than two weeks after Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, she compared Israeli soldiers to “political animals.”

“What the f— do I have to do in this f—ing council in order to get respect as a black woman,” Fernandes Anderson shouted during a council meeting in a tirade that went viral on social media in August 2022.

Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu called on Fernandes Anderson to resign following the DOJ’s indictment.

“Like any member of the community, Councilor Fernandes Anderson has the right to a fair legal process,” Wu said in a statement. “But the serious nature of these charges undermine the public trust and will prevent her from effectively serving the city.”

Fernandes Anderson was previously fined by the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission between March and May 2023 following the body’s findings that the Boston city council member violated a conflict of interest law by hiring her sister as her office’s director of constituent services and her son as office manager.