Tania Fernandes Anderson#Conflict of interest concerns

Fernandes Anderson was born in Praia, Cape Verde. She immigrated to the United States at the age of ten, settling in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. She graduated from John D. O'Bryant High School. She was formerly an illegal immigrant. She is the executive director of Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets, a non-profit supporting small businesses.{{cite web|url=https://thescopeboston.org/6719/2021-boston-elections/city-council-race-tania-fernandes-anderson-for-district-7/|title=City Council Race: Tania Fernandes Anderson running for District 7|date=July 20, 2021|access-date=December 8, 2021|last=Weaver|first=Lex|website=The Scope Boston}}{{cite web |last1=Deehan |first1=Mike |title=Boston Councilor Fernandes Anderson faces federal investigation |url=https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2024/12/03/councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-federal-investigation |website=Axios |access-date=4 December 2024 |language=en |date=3 December 2024}} In 2019, Fernandes Anderson became an American citizen.

Elected in November 2021, Fernandes Anderson took office in January 2022. Her tenure has been described as one in which she was "a powerful representative of the city's routinely marginalized voices" but also that "she has accomplished little besides picking a lot of pointless fights."{{r|walker}}

Fernandes Anderson is the first Muslim, the first immigrant from the continent of Africa, and the first former undocumented immigrant to serve on the city council. She represents the seventh district, which covers large portions of Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods, as well as smaller portions of the South End and Fenway neighborhoods.{{cite web |last1=Prichard |first1=Matt |title=Boston City Council Considers Plans for Tania Fernandes Anderson's Resignation |url=https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-city-council-tania-fernandes-andersons-resignation/3687952 |website=NBC Boston |access-date=28 April 2025 |date=16 April 2025}}

In her first term, Fernandes Anderson chaired the Ways and Means Committee, which has a purview centered on budget-related legislation. Due to its central role in the city's budgeting process, this chairmanship is considered a powerful post. It was said, "she pretty quickly seemed overwhelmed in the role."{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Adrian |date=December 6, 2024 |title=Fernandes Anderson's indictment is bad for all of city government |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/06/metro/fernandes-andersons-indictment-is-bad-all-city-government/ |work=The Boston Globe}} She was later removed from the chairmanship by her colleagues.{{cite news | url = https://commonwealthbeacon.org/government/state-government/political-notebook-when-a-governor-blowtorched-a-fascist-and-other-tales/ | title = Political Notebook: When a governor blowtorched a fascist and other tales | first = Gintautas | last = Dumcius | date = December 13, 2024 | accessdate = December 13, 2024 | publisher = CommonWealth Beacon }}

In June 2023, the city council voted 7–5 to approve an operating budget for the following fiscal year as it had been amended by the committee. Many of the amendments that the committee had made to the budget faced heavy criticism from dissenting council members.{{cite web |last1=Dumcius |first1=Gintautas |title=Divided Councillors Vote to Send City Budget to Mayor Wu After Clash Over Police Funds |url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/divided-councillors-vote-send-city-budget-mayor-wu-after-clash-over |website=www.dotnews.com |publisher=Dorchester Reporter |access-date=8 January 2024 |language=en |date=June 14, 2023}} A majority of the budget amendments were vetoed by Mayor Michelle Wu, including amendments which would have resulted in decreased funding for the city's Office of Veterans Services and its police department, an amendment aimed at increasing citizen input in budgeting, as well as decreased funding for the city's Transportation Department, Public Works Department, and the Boston Public Library.Multiple sources:

• {{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Danny |title=Wu rejects City Council's budget plan that would slash money to police, veterans services |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/16/metro/wu-rejects-city-council-budget/ |website=Boston Globe |access-date=4 July 2023 |date=June 16, 2023}}
• {{cite web |last1=Battenfeld |first1=Joe |title=Battenfeld: Michelle Wu puts a stop to foolish Boston City Council cuts |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/17/battenfeld-michelle-wu-puts-a-stop-to-foolish-boston-city-council-cuts/ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=8 July 2023 |date=17 June 2023}} After Wu's vetoes, the city council held votes on overriding six of the vetoes, but only secured the necessary threshold to override a single veto.{{cite web |last1=Wuthmann |first1=Walter |title=Mayor Wu says council's budget override violates Boston city charter |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/17/mayor-wu-city-council-boston-union |website=WBUR |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en |date=July 17, 2023}}

Fernandes Anderson publicly claimed that she was not responsible for several of the more controversial cuts. Fellow councilor Erin Murphy characterized Fernandes Anderson's rejection of responsibility as dishonest, arguing that Fernandes Anderson's power as committee chair had given her a "final say" as to which amendments would advance.{{cite web |last1=Cawley |first1=Gayla |title=Police, Veterans Cuts Were Not My Fault, Boston City Councilor in Charge of Budget Says |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/21/police-veterans-cuts-were-not-my-fault-boston-city-councilor-in-charge-of-budget-says |website=Boston Herald |access-date=4 December 2024 |date=22 June 2023}}

Fernandes Anderson was vocal on the Gaza war. At an October 18, 2023 city council hearing where resolutions were presented about the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and Gaza war more broadly, Anderson made comments calling for a return of hostages taken by Hamas and an immediate ceasefire by both sides and introduced a resolution calling for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire.Multiple sources:

• {{cite web |last1=Bienick |first1=David |title=Israel-Hamas war sparks emotional Boston City Council debate |url=https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-city-council-emotional-debate-israel-hamas-war/45577032# |website=WCVB |access-date=31 December 2023 |language=en |date=18 October 2023}}
• {{cite web |last1=Chan |first1=Tiffany |title=Boston City Council holds heated debate on whether to formally support Israel - CBS Boston |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-city-council-holds-heated-debate-on-whether-to-formally-support-israel/ |website=CBS News |access-date=31 December 2023 |date=18 October 2023}} She was criticized for characterizing the Hamas-led attack as a "military operation" rather than an act of terrorism in her resolution.
• {{cite web |last1=Cawley |first1=Gayla |title=Boston city councilor's description of Hamas attack as 'massive military operation' sparks outrage |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/10/18/boston-city-councilors-description-of-hamas-as-massive-military-operation-sparks-outrage/ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=31 December 2023 |date=18 October 2023}}
• {{cite web |last1=Van Zile |first1=Dexter |title=Tania Fernandes Anderson owes Boston an apology |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/03/van-zile-tania-fernandes-anderson-owes-boston-an-apology/ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=8 January 2024 |date=3 November 2023}} Councilors Frank Baker and Sharon Durkan opposed holding an immediate vote on Fernandes Anderson's ordinance, and it was referred to the committee of the whole.{{cite web |last1=Abrams |first1=Nicole |title=City councilors speak on Israeli-Palestinian conflict |url=https://dailyfreepress.com/2023/10/19/city-councilors-speak-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ |website=The Daily Free Press |access-date=6 February 2024 |date=19 October 2023}} In December 2023, Fernandes Anderson awarded a citation purportedly from the entire city council to two Boston Public Schools students praising them for a pro-Palestine student walkout that they had organized in Boston schools. The students were then, at the invite of Fernandes Anderson, given time to make a presentation and proceeded to make remarks that were characterized as being "divisive". Numerous councilors reported having felt "blindsided" by the citation and presentation, including Council President Ed Flynn. Flynn claimed that Fernandes Anderson had not accurately informed him as to what the citation and presentation related to and that he would not have consented to either had he been familiar. Flynn claimed that the presentation went against the council's practice of disallowing presentations by outside individuals on controversial topics.{{cite web |last1=Cawley |first1=Gayla |title=Boston city councilors 'blindsided' by presentation honoring pro-Palestinian student walkout |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/08/boston-city-councilors-blindsided-by-presentation-honoring-pro-palestinian-student-walkout/ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=20 February 2024 |date=9 December 2023}}

In June 2022, the Boston City Council unanimously adopted a resolution introduced by Fernandes Anderson and Councilors Kendra Lara and Ruthzee Louijeune which apologized for the city's historical role in the Atlantic slave trade.Multiple sources:

• {{cite web |last1=Grove |first1=Rashad |title=Boston City Council Apologizes for its Role in Slavery |url=https://www.ebony.com/boston-city-council-apologizes-for-its-role-in-slavery/ |website=Ebony |access-date=16 April 2023 |date=20 June 2022}}
• {{cite web |title=City of Boston - File #: 2022-0770 |url=https://boston.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5691766&GUID=26415561-B23A-4DB5-B07C-FFA65278109A |website=boston.legistar.com |publisher=City of Boston |access-date=5 December 2024}}

In October 2022, Fernandes Anderson offered a resolution calling for "Boston's Hijab Day", in recognition of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities. Amini had been arrested for improperly wearing the hijab (which Iran's government mandates women wear). Fernandes Anderson intended for the resolution to "call for the freedom of women's self-expression to cover or not cover their hair, for the women of Iran and across the world". Fernandes Anderson's proposal received international media attention, with heavy criticism finding her choice to use the name "Hijab Day" to commemorate Amini.{{cite web |last1=Lannan |first1=Katie |title=After backlash, Boston councilor shifts course on 'Hijab Day' resolution |url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2022-10-26/after-backlash-boston-councilor-shifts-course-on-hijab-day-resolution |website=WGBH |access-date=4 December 2024 |language=en |date=26 October 2022}} The council declined to use this name, and instead agreed to a different resolution text that instead commemorates September 23 (Amini's birthday) as the "Day of Woman, Life and Freedom".{{cite web |last1=Lannan |first1=Katie |title=After backlash, Boston councilor shifts course on 'Hijab Day' resolution |url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2022-10-26/after-backlash-boston-councilor-shifts-course-on-hijab-day-resolution |website=WGBH-TV |date=26 October 2022 |access-date=17 September 2023}}

Fernandes Anderson was reelected in November 2023, defeating a challenge by Althea Garrison, a perennial candidate and former officeholder. When the oath of office was being administered collectively to city councilors by Mayor Michelle Wu at the January 1, 2024 inaugural meeting of new council term, Fernandes Anderson failed both to raise her hand and verbally recite the oath. A video showing Fernandes Anderson's failure to perform her oath of office went viral after being posted to the Libs of TikTok account on X, with the account's post including commentary accusing Fernandes of hating the United States. She responded that she had "internalized" the oath with a private prayer, and called commentary on it "anti-immigrant racist vitriol."{{cite news |last1=Farrar |first1=Molly |title=Boston city councilor appears to not say the oath of office, is reportedly asked to do it again |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/boston-city-councilor-appears-to-not-say-the-oath-of-office-is-reportedly-asked-to-do-it-again/ar-AA1muaPb |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=Boston Globe |publisher=MSN |date=January 4, 2024}} However, because the Boston City Charter requires that city councilors recite their oath of office in order to serve, Mayor Wu and the city government declared that Anderson's tenure on the council had lapsed and ordered that city council records be amended to discount Fernandes Anderson's vote on the selection of Ruthzee Louijeune as council president, since Fernandes Anderson had not been eligible to cast any council votes (the choice of Louijeune as council president had been unanimous, therefore this had no material impact). Fernandes Anderson was allowed to re-assume her office as a city councilor after taking her oath on January 4, 2024.{{cite news |last1=Cawley |first1=Gayla |title=Boston Mayor Wu says city councilor failed to take oath of office at inauguration |url=https://www.heraldpalladium.com/news/national/boston-mayor-wu-says-city-councilor-failed-to-take-oath-of-office-at-inauguration/article_70cddbaa-d124-569b-a5e2-38c4e8eaf9da.html |website=The Herald Palladium |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en |date=6 January 2024}}

In her second term, Fernandes Anderson has served as chair of the council's Arts Committee and Civil Rights Committee. In February 2024, Fernandes Anderson introduced a request to hold a hearing to explore the possibility of Boston adopting congestion pricing for access to the city by motor vehicles. Fernandes Anderson touted congestion pricing as a possible solution to alleviate traffic woes on the city's roadways.{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Russ |title=Boston City Council Discusses Congestion Pricing for Drivers |url=https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-city-council-congestion-pricing-discussion/46845034 |website=WCVB |access-date=19 February 2024 |language=en |date=18 February 2024}} In November 2024, she signed-on as a sponsor of a resolution proposed by councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy that would have recommended that the city's election department be placed under state receivership. However, she ultimately abstained from the vote, which saw the bill fail 2–7 (with four abstentions in total).

• {{cite web |last1=Cristantiello |first1=Ross |title=City Council votes against 'abrupt' push for state takeover of Boston Election Department |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/11/21/city-councilstate-takeover-of-boston-election-department |website=Boston.com |date=November 21, 2024}}
• {{cite web |title=City of Boston - File #: 2024-1718 |url=https://boston.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7026367&GUID=F27B3C2F-D767-481A-A205-1C8007212A6A&Options=&Search= |website=boston.legistar.com |access-date=5 December 2024 |date=November 2024}}

On August 2, 2023, Fernandes Anderson was a robbery victim in the area of Boston known as Mass. and Cass. While she was surveying an area populated by homeless people, a man grabbed her cell phone and ran away. After summoning the police, officers conducted a search of the homeless encampment, recovered the phone, and returned it to her. Fernandes Anderson subsequently criticized the Boston Police for allowing details of the crime to be made public. She also criticized the media for reporting the incident, calling it "propaganda."{{cite web |last1=Fortin |first1=Matt |title=Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson mugged in Mass. and Cass area |url=https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-city-councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-mugged-in-mass-and-cass-area/3122358/ |website=NBC 10 Boston |date=28 August 2023 |access-date=17 September 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Cristantiello |first1=Ross |title=City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson reportedly robbed near Mass. and Cass |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/08/28/city-councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-reportedly-robbed-near-mass-and-cass/ |website=Boston.com |access-date=17 September 2023}}

After Fernandes Anderson's December 2024 arrest on federal corruption charges, Mayor Wu, Council President Louijeune, and several other councilors (including Durkan, Flynn, Murphy, and Gabriela Coletta Zapata) publicly called for Fernandes Anderson to resign her seat. She initially defied this pressure.{{cite web |last1=Cristantiello |first1=Ross |title=Fernandes Anderson Defies Calls For Resignation; Ethics Committee Idea Gets Tepid Response On City Council |url=https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2024/12/12/fernandes-anderson-defies-resignation-calls-ethics-committee-idea-tepid-response-on-city-council |website=Boston.com |access-date=28 April 2025 |date=December 22, 2025}} However, in early April 2025 Fenandes Anderson disclosed that she had agreed with federal prosecutors to resign her seat as part of a plea bargain.{{cite news | url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/metro/fernandes-anderson-plead-guilty-court-filings/ | title = Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson Says She's Resigning After Agreeing To Plead Guilty In Federal Corruption Case | first1 = Danny | last1 = McDonald | first2=Shelly | last2 = Murphy | first3=Niki | last3= Giswold | date = April 8, 2025 | accessdate = April 9, 2025 | publisher = The Boston Globe }} She signed the plea deal on April 7, and federal prosecutors filed the plea in court the following day.{{cite web |last1=Reynolds |first1=Lance |title=Timeline: Tania Fernandes Anderson’s Messy Boston City Council Tenure |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/04/08/timeline-tania-fernandes-andersons-messy-boston-city-council-tenure/\ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=13 June 2025 |date=April 8, 2025}}

Fernandes Anderson did not immediately tender her resignation after announcing that she had agreed to plead guilt, and attended the first council meeting held subsequent to this announcement.{{cite web |last1=Cristantiello |first1=Ross |title=Fernandes Anderson Returns To Work; Resignation Timeline Unclear |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/04/10/fernandes-anderson-returns-to-work-resignation-timeline-unclear |website=Boston.com |access-date=28 April 2025 |date=April 10, 2025}} In the week that followed this, Council President Louijeuene asked the city's corporation counsel to provide clarification on whether rules would allow the council to remove Fernandes Anderson from office. The corporation council opined that rules would not enable them to do so until after Fernandes Anderson formally receives her criminal sentencing,{{cite web |last1=Cristantiello |first1=Ross |title=Amid calls for Fernandes Anderson to resign, her colleagues' hands are tied |url=https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2025/05/13/amid-calls-for-fernandes-anderson-to-resign-her-colleagues-hands-are-tied |website=Boston.com |access-date=14 May 2025 |date=May 13, 2025}} which is scheduled for July 29. In mid-June, Fernandes Andreson submitted her resignation, which will take effect after July 4.{{cite web |last1=Cawley |first1=Gayla |title=Disgraced Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson Resigns |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/12/disgraced-boston-city-counclior-tania-fernandes-anderson-resigns |website=Boston Herald |access-date=13 June 2025 |date=12 June 2025}}

Eleven candidates have qualified to run for Fernandes Anderson's seat in the regularly-scheduled 2025 city council election. No special election for the seat is scheduled to occur before the November election. Officials in Boston have indicated that they hope arrangements can be made to seat the winner of the November election immediately after certification of the result, in order to prevent the seat from remaining vacant all the way through January.

In July 2023, Fernandes Anderson admitted guilt and agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty after violating conflict of interest laws by hiring her sister and son to paid positions on her Boston City Council staff, according to the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission. After her 2021 election to the Boston City Council, Fernandes Anderson appointed her sister as her full-time Director of Constituent Services. She initially set her sister's salary at $65,000 and then approved an increase to $70,000 in 2022, while also giving her sister a $7,000 bonus, according to the disposition agreement signed by Fernandes Anderson. She had been advised she could not hire family members prior to being sworn in.{{r|walker}}

In 2022, she also appointed her son as her office manager at an annual salary of $52,000 and then less than two weeks later, gave her son a pay raise to $70,000.{{cite web |last1=Morelli |first1=Jim |title=Boston City Councilor admits she hired family members, violated conflict of interest law |url=https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-city-councilor-admits-she-hired-family-members-violated-conflict-interest-laws/RSF44RMIPZDBLJ75QLRM727DIA/ |website=Boston 25News |date=26 July 2023 |access-date=September 17, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson admits violation of conflict of interest law, agrees to pay $5,000 penalty |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDH_(TV) |website=News7 Boston |access-date=September 17, 2023}} In a statement released to the public, State Ethics Commission executive director David Wilson said, "Fernandes Anderson's actions as a Boston City Councilor concerning the appointment and compensation of her sister and son violated the conflict of interest law's prohibition against municipal employees participating in their official capacity in matters in which they know members of their immediate family have a financial interest." Both her sister and her son's employment were terminated in August 2022.{{cite web |title=Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson fined for hiring family members in ethics breach |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-city-councilor-tania-fernandes-anderson-fined-hiring-family-members/ |website=CBS News Boston |date=25 July 2023 |access-date=September 17, 2023}}

Anderson later said on social media that "I messed up and should have paid attention to those [ethics] training videos."{{r|gd}}

In November 2024, Fernandes Anderson received a citation for failing to report $32,900 worth of campaign contributions, and for taking contributions that exceeded state limits.

On December 6, 2024, FBI special agents in Boston arrested Anderson on public corruption charges.{{cite web | url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-arrests-boston-city-councilor-public-corruption-charges | title=FBI arrests Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson on public corruption charges | website=Fox News }}{{cite web |last1=McDonald |first1=Danny |last2=Murphy |first2=Shelley |last3=Valencia |first3=Milton J. |title=Boston Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is Subject of Federal Probe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/metro/boston-city-council-tania-fernandes-anderson-federal-investigation |website=The Boston Globe |date=December 3, 2024}} She was indicted on five counts of aiding and abetting wire fraud.{{r|charges}} She was also accused of one count of aiding and abetting theft of federal monies in connection with a kickback scheme.{{cite news| url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/06/metro/tania-fernandes-anderson-arrested/ | title = Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson arrested on federal charges in connection with alleged kickback scheme | first1 = Danny | last1 = McDonald | first2 = Shelly | last2 = Murphy | date = December 6, 2024 | accessdate = December 6, 2024 | publisher = The Boston Globe }}

According to the indictment, Anderson hired a relative to work in her City Hall office.{{r|charges}} She then gave that employee, who she falsely denied was related to her, a $13,000 raise in return for the employee giving Anderson $7,000 in cash in a City Hall bathroom.{{r|charges}} At the time, Anderson was facing financial difficulties, was late on her rent, was missing car payments, was overdrafting her bank account, and had a $5,000 penalty from the state Ethics Commission for hiring other relatives to her staff.{{r|charges}} She agreed in April 2025 to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of theft, and to step down from the council.{{cite web |last1=Zulo |first1=Darrin |title='Please Forgive Me': Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson to Resign After Agreeing To Plead Guilty In Corruption Case |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/04/08/tania-fernandes-anderson-resigns-after-pleading-guilty-in-corruption-case/ |website=Boston.com |access-date=28 April 2025 |date=April 8, 2025}}

Fernandes Anderson has been a foster mother of 17 children. In a 2023 council meeting, Fernandes Anderson mentioned that one of her sons has served in the United States Marine Corps. Fernandes Anderson is a practicing Sunni Muslim.

Fernandes Anderson is married to Tanzerious Anderson,{{cite news |last1=Michaud |first1=Jim |title=Ride For Black Lives |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/30/ride-for-black-lives/ |work=Boston Herald |date=31 August 2020}} who has been incarcerated for murder.{{cite web |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1400348.html |website=Findlaw | title=COMMONWEALTH v. ANDERSON (2005)}}

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