BOSTON (WWLP) - Former Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was sentenced to prison on Friday for federal public corruption charges.

From January 2022 to July 2025, 46-year-old Tania Fernandes Anderson of Boston served as City Councilor for Boston's District 7, which includes Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway, and part of Boston’s South End.

Charging documents stated that in 2022, Fernandes Anderson hired two members of her immediate family as members of her City Council staff, which is against the Massachusetts state conflict of interest law. Fernandes Anderson was required to terminate her family members' employment in August of 2022. In May 2023, the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission notified her that it was seeking a $5,000 civil penalty payment due to this violation.

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