DANBURY, Conn. —
Federal records indicate that Tania Fernandes Anderson, a former Boston City Councilor, is being held at a prison in Connecticut to serve her one-month sentence.
Records indicate that she is being held at FCI Danbury in Connecticut. The facility is described as a low-security federal institution with more than 1,200 inmates.
Fernandes Anderson was arrested at her Dorchester home in December on federal fraud and theft charges in connection with the kickback scheme.
She pleaded guilty in May to securing a $13,000 bonus for a staff member and then taking an envelope with $7,000 in cash from that staff member in a city hall bathroom, and she relinquished her seat on the council.
Her defense attorney has argued that Fernandes Anderson was a caring public servant who "did