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2 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Trajan Warren
In 2021, Tania Fernandes Anderson made history as the first Muslim-American and first African immigrant elected to the Boston City Council. But a little over three years later, she pled guilty to charges of wire fraud and theft Tuesday and said she would resign from the city’s governing body .
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2 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Trajan Warren
April 08, 2025 Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has signed a plea agreement on her fraud case from last December, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Fernandes Anderson initially pleaded not guilty after she was arrested and charged with defrauding the city of Boston out of federal grant money. Prosecutors alleged she hired a relative, paid that relative a bonus, then had that relative give her $7,000 back from that bonus.
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4 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Trajan Warren
March 27, 2025 Latino-owned businesses have rebounded faster than white-owned businesses from the pandemic-induced downturn, according to a new report. The 10th annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship report from Stanford Graduate School of Business found that the number of Latino-owned businesses increased by 44% nationally from 2018 to 2023. The number of white-owned businesses decreased by 3% in that same time frame.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Trajan Warren
March 20, 2025 More than 200 people attended the International Institute of New England’s inaugural WILLOW Fund Luncheon on Thursday to honor the resilience of women refugees and immigrants. Nazia Jamal, an Afghan refugee, spoke at the luncheon about her harrowing journey. She taught women in Afghanistan but when the Taliban took over in 2021, she and the women she taught were in danger of imprisonment or death. Jamal fled, spending time in Pakistan before coming to the United States in 2024.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Trajan Warren
March 12, 2025 Nearly 2,000 Transportation Security Administration employees in New England are scrambling to find out what their job projections are after the Department of Homeland Security ended a collective bargaining agreement with TSA screeners on March 7. Dave Boucher, treasurer and secretary for the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2617, works at the Manchester Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire.
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