This week’s imprisonment for a former top attorney for the city of Baltimore includes lying about her personal finances in order to gain unauthorized access to her retirement savings during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Marilyn Mosby, a former state’s attorney from Baltimore, will begin her sentencing on Thursday at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, a Maryland suburb of the capital.
After trials regarding her personal finances, Mosby was found guilty on separate counts of fraud and mortgage fraud by two juries.
Mosby gained popularity worldwide, after accusing six Baltimore police officers. In the city, riots and protests followed Gray’s killing.
Mosby’s office withdrew charges against the remaining three policemen following the acquittal of three of them.
During the pandemic’s peak in 2020, Mosby took $90,000 out of Baltimore City’s deferred compensation plan.
She paid a down payment on vacation properties in Long Boat Key and Kissimmee, Florida.
Mosby’s attorneys contended that she had the legal right to take the money out and use it however she pleased.
Mosby, who held the position of Baltimore’s state attorney for two terms, has been urged by federal prosecutors to serve a 20-month prison sentence.
She ran for reelection in 2022 but was unsuccessful.
Prosecutors stated that Ms. Mosby was charged and found guilty due to her serial breaking of the law, not because of her political views or policies.
The judge was persuaded by Mosby’s counsel to save her from prison. They stated she is the only public servant in Maryland to face prosecution for federal charges with no financial loss, no victim, and no use of taxpayer money.
Marilyn Mosby’s lawyers claimed that being imprisoned is not justice for her. Early last month, Mosby filed for a presidential pardon.
The Congressional Black Caucus endorsed her case in a letter to President Joe Biden, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Mosby’s trials were to be moved from Baltimore to Greenbelt, a suburb of the capital of the United States, with the approval of U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby.
Mosby’s lawyers contended that because of years of unfavorable media coverage in Baltimore, she was unable to receive a fair trial there.