With intertwined elements of race, power and accusations of corruption, the Marilyn Mosby case is a stunning case study of the city’s political and legal culture
Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s state’s attorney for eight years and half of one of the city’s power couples, will finally face perjury charges next week in federal court in Greenbelt.
The case – rife with novel legal theories, charges of racism and political soap opera – is a stunning illustration of Baltimore’s political and legal culture.
Postponed three times, removed from a Baltimore courthouse, and split in two by U.S. District of Maryland Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, it pits the former high-profile progressive prosecutor’s court-appointed defense lawyers against a U.S. Attorney’s Office that once sent the city’s mayor to prison for fraud.
Mosby was indicted in January 2022, accused of taking a loan from her own retirement funds under false pretenses by claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic caused her to suffer “adverse financial consequences.” In that time, she got a raise from $238,000 to almost $248,000.
Much of the wrangling over the charge centers on the meaning of hardship in the CARES Act, and who gets to decide what qualifies as “adverse financial consequences.”
She’s also accused of lying on mortgage documents for two Florida properties that those funds helped pay for an eight-bedroom house near Disney World and a Gulf Coast condominium.
The indictment says she falsely claimed the house was going to be her “residence” in order to get a better interest rate, while she had already signed a contract to make that place a short-term rental.
Lock Up Racist Mosby !!!!
It’s about time! That racist POS needs to go to prison for the rest of her miserable days.
Mebbe she can write a book about her experiences? Worked wonders for the ex-mayor!
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That POS bimbo needs to go to jail for her corruption!