Marilyn Mosby In The Feds Crosshairs!

Marilyn Mosby got a federal sandwich

The state prosecutor who became a national figure in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death is facing a state and federal sandwich. The city of Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby is being criminally charged with perjury, falsifying documents and misuse of CARES Act funding on her Florida homes.

Mosby gain national recognition for charging six Baltimore police officers with the death of Freddie Gray. The incident happened in 2015 when three officers (one plain clothes and two bicycle officers) allegedly knocked Gray into a wall shattering his spine. The cops would pick up a screaming Gray and shackle him into a police van. The police van driver did not hear the cries of pain and gave him a "rough ride". The two uniformed cops tasked with placing Gray in holding failed to render aid and failed to realize that he was critically injured. 

Gray was taken to a local hospital with the injuries severe enough to be permanent disability. He would end up dying and it triggered unrest in the city. His death was settled for over $6 million.

Mosby sought to have the six cops arrested and convicted. It was the goddamn police union and white grand juries that allowed these dirty cops to walk free without any accountability. Gray was arrested for unlawfully possessing a switchblade knife.

Mosby was vilified by the far right and police union. With crime being on the rise and this goddamn pandemic ongoing, the far right has gone to war with the so-called "Woke D.A.s" in the country. 

Besides criticism of her case against the officers charged in Gray's death, Mosby has faced questions for her frequent speaking engagements and private businesses. Though she maintained she did nothing wrong, Mosby asked city Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming to investigate. Cumming found Mosby was out of town for 144 workdays in 2018 and 2019, did not report 15 out-of-town trips to the Board of Estimates and used LLCs she claimed to be dormant as tax write-offs. City Solicitor Jim Shea issued his own assessment, finding that administrative rules are unclear and that Mosby did nothing wrong in regards to her travel.

Days later, it was revealed that lawyers who responded to the inspector general's report on Mosby's behalf were paid by Mosby's campaign, a possible violation of state law.

Mosby and her husband are the subjects of an active federal investigation. Investigators have sought a wide range of business and campaign records. Mosby, a Democrat elected to her post in 2015, is accused of falsely claiming twice to have suffered a work-related financial hardship from COVID-19 in order to request early withdrawals totaling $90,000 from her city employee retirement account.

Florida land records revealed Mosby bought two homes in Florida weeks before the federal investigation came to light.

In October 2020, a $45,000 tax lien was filed against the property of Marilyn and Nick Mosby for three years of unpaid federal taxes (2014, 2015, and 2016). Nick Mosby said he has been "in ongoing conversations with the IRS" about resolving this issue. That November, he said the issue was "settled".

City council president Nick Mosby also got served a federal sandwich.

Mosby used the money she received – $36,000 in May 2020 and $45,000 on Dec. 31 of that year – toward down payments on vacation homes in Kissimmee, Florida, and Long Boat Key, Florida.

The two counts of perjury stem from Mosby’s false statements of coronavirus-related financial duress at a time when she was earning a gross annual salary of nearly $248,000 in full, the indictment asserted.

On January 13, 2022, she was indicted by a federal grand jury on a perjury charge alleging she falsely claimed COVID-related financial hardship in requesting one-time withdrawals of $40,000 and $50,000 of her deferred compensation funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, known as the CARE Act. The CARE Act describes specific criteria for qualifying withdrawals, such as a reduction of income due to a COVID-related layoff or due to quarantining, whereas she reportedly had continued to draw her full salary throughout the period, and her salary had actually increased. She additionally was accused of making false statements in mortgage applications for her Florida home and condo by failing to disclose her federal tax liabilities. There are four counts in the indictment.

There was no immediate comment from Mosby, her office or any legal representative about the indictment.

If convicted, she could face up to five years for each of two perjury counts and decades in the iron college on charges of making false mortgage applications, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.