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PHOTO -
Baltimore
State's
Attorney
Marilyn
Mosby,
the
city's
top
prosecutor,
was
indicted
on
Thursday
on
federal
charges
of
perjury
and
filing
false
mortgage
applications
related
to her
purchase
of two
Florida
vacation
homes.
(AP/Julio
Cortez) |
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State's
attorney
for
Baltimore
Marilyn
Mosby
speaking
during a
press
conference
in the
city in
2015.
(Photo:
Andrew
Burton/Getty
Images) |
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Baltimore
state's
attorney
indicted
on
federal
charges
By Tyler
Clifford
and
Steve
Gorman
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BALTIMORE
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Baltimore
State's
Attorney
Marilyn
Mosby,
the
city's
top
prosecutor,
was
indicted
on
Thursday
on
federal
charges
of
perjury
and
filing
false
mortgage
applications
related
to her
purchase
of two
Florida
vacation
homes.
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.
In both
instances,
the
indictment
stated,
Mosby
fraudulently
cited a
federal
CARES
Act
provision
allowing
for
emergency
distributions
of up to
$100,000
from her
retirement
plan in
the
event of
a
furlough,
layoff,
quarantine,
reduced
work
hours,
lack of
childcare
or
impact
on one's
own
business
caused
by
COVID-19.
Prosecutors
said
Mosby,
41, 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.
Mosby is
further
charged
with two
counts
of
making
false
statements
on
mortgage
applications
seeking
a total
of more
than
$900,000
in loans
to
purchase
the two
Florida
properties
in
question.
In
particular,
the
indictment
says,
Mosby
failed
to
disclose
as
required
in both
applications
that she
and her
husband
were
delinquent
in
federal
tax
payments
resulting
in
$45,000
tax lien
filed
against
them by
the
Internal
Revenue
Service
in 2020.
Mosby,
who ran
for
office
as a
part of
a
movement
of
"progressive
prosecutors"
promising
to
address
systemic
inequities
in the
U.S.
criminal
justice
system,
made
national
headlines
in 2015
when she
charged
six
officers
in the
police
custody
death of
Freddie
Gray, a
young
Black
man.
The
death of
Gray,
who
suffered
a fatal
spinal
injury
while
being
transported
without
a
seatbelt
in a
police
van, led
to
rioting
on the
day of
his
funeral.
None of
the six
officers
charged
in his
death
was
convicted.
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
prison
on
charges
of
making
false
mortgage
applications,
according
to a
statement
from the
U.S.
Attorney's
Office
for
Maryland.
(Reporting
by Tyler
Clifford
in New
York and
Steve
Gorman
in Los
Angeles;
Additional
reporting
by Dan
Whitcomb
in Los
Angeles.Editing
by
Jonathan
Oatis,
Matthew
Lewis
and
Cynthia
Osterman)
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