Boston activist Monica Cannon-Grant, fresh on the scheduling of her long-awaited federal trial, took to the radio airwaves for a free-wheeling interview that lasted for more than two and a half hours.

Cannon-Grant, along with her late husband Clark Grant, is the subject of a 27-count federal indictment alleging serious fraud in the management of her nonprofit Violence in Boston. The case last week received a trial date of Dec. 2, a date Cannon-Grant said she was excited for after three and a half years of pressure.

In a Tuesday interview on “Inside the Ride” with host Marv Neal on 98.1FM The Urban Heat, Cannon-Grant painted a picture of herself as a successful Black Lives Matter activist whose case is just a symptom of the powers that be trying to shut her up and assisted by those in her circle who could be paid off or had some kind of ax to grind.

At one point in the interview she said that her attorney, Christopher Malcolm, who is nowhere near the first to take up her case, was on the line and would advise her on what to say, but the content of what she said didn’t appear to be restrained.

“I think a lot of what I was going through is jealousy and envy, and jealousy and envy is worse than bullets,” Cannon-Grant said in the fast-paced interview that began with her activism starting in 2017 that hit a high-note in 2020 following the death of George Floyd and the national activism that followed it.

She talked about moving from street-level protesting to staging protests with tens of thousands of people and the influence she gained. She said she had the ear of then-Mayor Marty Walsh and got things done.

Donations started flooding in at that point and she said her account exceeded $1 million, so she brought in an accountant to get her finances in order. And then came an organization building in Hyde Park where she had high hopes for all kinds of local community work.

“Hindsight is 20/20 I hired who was around me and I hired friends,” she said, “there should be layers to the process and that’s one of the mistakes I made in that process.”

She said that her two hires, who were just people she was friends with, turned out not to be doing the work they needed to be doing and she had to let them go. She said they took to local media to defame her and became just two more of the myriad people she claims turned her back on her out of jealousy of her success.

“I want people to have context, I’m dealing with disgruntled employees, I’m dealing with white supremacists,” Cannon-Grant said of how she got caught up in a federal investigation. “I’m being character assassinated on a level I’ve never had to deal with.”

She said that what has happened to her as far as the investigation and the federal charges is like “COINTELPRO 2.0,” referring to the FBI counterintelligence program from 1956 to 1971 to discredit organizations it saw as subversive, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

She said that when she was arrested she was treated by authorities “like I was Pablo Escobar.”