BOSTON––What happens when a Boston politician admits to taking a $7,000 cash bribe in a City Hall bathroom?

Apparently, she gets a court-approved vacation to Rhode Island.

Former City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty in April to federal corruption charges — admitting she ran a taxpayer-funded kickback scheme out of her City Hall office. She was scheduled to be sentenced July 29. But that’s been pushed to September 5, after probation officials claimed they needed more time to review “new information.”

Instead of heading to prison, she’s heading out of state.

The court didn’t just grant the delay — it handed Fernandes Anderson a travel pass. She says she’s going to Rhode Island to help her son with a newborn. Because if there’s one thing Boston’s political class never runs out of, it’s excuses.

Here’s what she admitted to: hiring friends and relatives to her City Hall staff, giving them fake or no-show jobs, and demanding kickbacks from their taxpayer-funded salaries. One relative handed her $7,000 — in cash — inside a City Hall bathroom. That’s not speculation. That’s in her plea deal.

And here’s what she didn’t do: resign.

Not right away. Not when she pled guilty. Not when her corruption became public.

She stayed in office for nearly three more months, continuing to collect her full City Council salary — more than $100,000 a year — from the same taxpayers she admitted to defrauding.

That adds up to around $28,000 in public funds paid after she admitted guilt.

She finally resigned on July 4 — conveniently just early enough to avoid triggering a special election for her District 7 seat. The timing wasn’t just lucky. It was perfect.

Federal prosecutors have recommended a sentence of one year and one day in prison, plus three years of supervised release and $13,000 in restitution. In the meantime, she’s packing her bags.

Because in Boston, political corruption doesn’t get punished. It gets parental leave.

The next court date is now set for September 5. Unless something else comes up.