The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday this week that Boston City Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson is being investigated by federal authorities who have issued subpoenas to Boston City Hall. The initial report said that the scope and nature of the probe were “not immediately known,” but added that no “criminal charges have been filed at this time.”

Fernandes Anderson’s district is centered in Roxbury, but also includes parts of Dorchester, along with sections of the South End and Fenway. The Globe said that Fernandes Anderson declined to comment for the paper’s story.

Fernandes Anderson was fined $5,000 in 2023 after the state’s Ethics Commission ruled that she violated state law by hiring her son and sister to her own council staff in 2022. She later terminated their employment and claimed that she was unaware that it was improper.

Last month, the councillor faced new scrutiny after the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance found irregularities with her campaign committee, according to the Globe.

Fernandes Anderson, 45, has been the District 7 councillor since her election in 2021. A native of Cape Verde and graduate of John D. O’Bryant High School, she previously worked in Dorchester as the executive director of Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets.

–REPORTER STAFF