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Originally posted by SigSAC:
NAACP calls on Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, who was allegedly victimized by Trump

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Goose, meet gander.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ntencing/ar-AA1o6IaU

Federal prosecutors filed notice Friday that they will ask to seize former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s Florida vacation condo on the same day as her sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.

The government indicated early on in the case that it would seek forfeiture. Friday’s filing formalizes prosecutors’ request and sets up the possibility of a legal fight over the condo at Mosby’s May 23 sentencing.

The government intends to sell the condo, according to the motion, which Mosby bought in February 2021 for $476,000. If there are profits from the sale, Mosby would get back her $47,600 down payment, prosecutors wrote.

The condominium known as “The Tree House” sits along Florida’s Gulf Coast in Longboat Key. It is one of two Florida vacation properties that Mosby bought during the coronavirus pandemic using money withdrawn from her city retirement account.

Mosby used that money, about $80,000, to put down payments on the two properties. Prosecutors said she lied about suffering a pandemic-related financial setback in order to make the early withdrawals under the CARES Act, federal legislation that offered emergency economic relief during the health crisis.

A federal jury agreed, convicting Mosby of two counts of perjury in November. At her second trial in January, the government alleged that Mosby lied repeatedly when she applied for mortgages on the two properties, which were worth almost $1 million combined.

Jurors convicted Mosby of one count of mortgage fraud at that trial, finding that Mosby submitted a false gift letter claiming that her then-husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, would send her $5,000 to close on the Longboat Key Condo. In fact, Mosby sent her husband the money herself before he wired it to an escrow agent.


U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby has scheduled a forfeiture hearing to take place on the same day as Mosby’s sentencing in Greenbelt.

Yeahhhhhhh

Music to my ears.

Karma by the trainload, you nasty, crooked, arrogant racist BIAHTCH!!

The "Tree House," huh? Was she hoping it was the kind that money grows on?

Group purchase for a SF club house? On second thought, I suspect it is trashed by its low-life previous owner.

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Originally posted by architect:
The "Tree House," huh? Was she hoping it was the kind that money grows on?

Group purchase for a SF club house? On second thought, I suspect it is trashed by its low-life previous owner.

Looks to be a really nice condo community with plenty of amenities and well taken care of, you can rent it or one like it at VRBO it might not be this one though, there are plenty of "tree house" condos for rent, most have a two week minimum in the summer so expect to drop about $5K for your vacation stay facility.

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The Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, attorney Ben Crump and others have joined in the fight for justice for the former Baltimore state’s attorney.

The Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to the White House in support of a pardon for Marilyn Mosby

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2...rilyn-mosby-n3788564

"We have seen the trail of wreckage that she left in her wake as a result of her personal war on the Baltimore Police Department and the various bits of profitable corruption that seemed to pop up wherever she went. But even after her crimes finally caught up with her, as the prosecutors in this case said yesterday, she has never accepted a shred of responsibility and has shown zero respect for the court where she used to work. She wants to play the victim and claim that she is the target of political opportunists and (of course) racists."

Biden (or more accurately his handlers) are in a quandary; do they support a pardon to try and shore up sagging black support, or ignore the request to avoid the extremely bad optics of letting a career political criminal off the hook? The smart option would be to ignore it and have her serve an unquestionably short stint in the clink and pay back the stolen money. On the other hand, who knows what dirt she has put away to damage the administration?

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WTOP.com: Baltimore’s former top prosecutor being sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury
The Associated Press

May 23, 2024, 10:34 AM

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore will soon learn her sentence for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby appeared before a judge Thursday at a federal courthouse in Greenbelt, a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital. Two juries separately convicted Mosby of perjury and mortgage fraud charges after trials involving her personal finances.

Mosby, 44, gained a national profile for charging six Baltimore police officers in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, a Black man fatally injured in police custody. Gray’s death led to riots and protests in the city. After three officers were acquitted, Mosby’s office dropped charges against the other three officers.

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Mosby withdrew $90,000 from Baltimore city’s deferred compensation plan and used it to make down payments on vacation homes in Kissimmee and Long Boat Key, Florida.

Prosecutors argued that Mosby improperly accessed the funds under provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act by falsely claiming that the pandemic had harmed her travel-oriented side business.

Mosby’s sentencing argument said the retirement funds came from her own income and that no one was defrauded because she paid an early withdrawal penalty and all federal taxes on the money. The government said that money remained the property of the city until she was legally eligible, and her perjury harmed everyone who followed the rules during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mosby’s mortgage fraud conviction stems from a $5,000 “gift letter” she submitted when taking a loan to buy the Long Boat Key property.
Prosecutors said the letter falsely stated that Mosby’s husband was giving her a $5,000 gift for the closing when it actually was her own money.

“Without the gift letter, the loan would never have been provided and Ms. Mosby would not have obtained the property. No gift letter, no loan,” prosecutors wrote.

Federal prosecutors also said she deserves prison because unlike others convicted of white-collar crimes, she’s expressed no remorse or contrition and has tried to delegitimize the case against her. They recommended a 20-month prison sentence for Mosby, who served two terms as state’s attorney for Baltimore. She lost a reelection bid after her 2022 indictment.

“Ms. Mosby was charged and convicted because she chose to repeatedly break the law, not because of her politics or policies,” prosecutors wrote.

Mosby’s attorneys urged the judge to spare her from prison. They said she is the only public official who has been prosecuted in Maryland for federal offenses “that entail no victim, no financial loss, and no use of public funds.”

“Jail is not justice for Marilyn Mosby,” her lawyers wrote.

Mosby applied for a presidential pardon earlier this month. In a letter to President Joe Biden, the Congressional Black Caucus expressed support for her cause, the Baltimore Sun reported.

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby agreed to move Mosby’s trials from Baltimore to Greenbelt, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Mosby’s attorneys argued that she couldn’t get a fair trial in Baltimore after years of negative media coverage there.

Dozens of Mosby supporters waited outside and applauded as she arrived with her family and entered the courthouse without answering questions from reporters. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump was among those expected to speak before the judge.

Copyright © 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.

That's an interesting defense, given what President Trump is being persecuted for in New York.

She got one year of home detention and three years of supervised release. Big whoop.

She's a felon. Try to downplay that.

She has a permanent fork stuck in her ass.

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She's a felon. Try to downplay that.

In Baltimore? Being a felon is damned near a requirement to live there.

I want to see her disbarred as well, at both the state and federal levels.

Was I not clear?

She's a felon, with all that it entails. Stop trying to downplay it simply because she didn't go to prison.

OK, its done. I would have liked to see her behind bars but a year of home confinement is better than nothing.

She is now, and always will be a felon. No matter what.

I take this as a win.

Marilyn Mosby asks federal appeals court to toss perjury, mortgage fraud convictions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...cd3aba9468b690&ei=99

Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is continuing her fight to have her name cleared and is now pleading with a federal appeals court to find flaws in the two trials where she was convicted of mortgage fraud and perjury.

In a new court filing first reported on by the Baltimore Sun and obtained by Fox News Digital, Mosby claims her conviction was the result of a prosecution that was "ill-advised and ill-conceived from the beginning."

Mosby was convicted on one count of mortgage fraud in February, after she testified that she unintentionally made false statements on loan applications to buy two Florida vacation homes.

In November, she was convicted of two counts of perjury by a federal jury after she falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city’s retirement fund. A judge sentenced Mosby to a year of home detention and three years of supervised release in May.

Now, Mosby says she was unfairly targeted during the investigation, although the brief does not allege she was the victim of racially or politically motivated prosecution.

"This prosecution was ill-advised and ill-conceived from the beginning, and the three convictions and forfeiture order that resulted are infirm," Mosby’s attorneys wrote in the brief. "They should all be set aside."

The brief was filed late Monday and is the first attempt from the former state’s attorney to convince federal appellate judges to overturn her conviction.

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Mosby after allegations that she claimed a pandemic-related hardship to pull money from her retirement account then used the money as down payments on two Florida properties.

Prosecutors also claimed she repeatedly lied on the mortgage applications.

While Mosby’s mortgage fraud trial was slated to take place in Baltimore, it was ultimately moved to Greenbelt, Maryland, because of concerns potential jurors may be biased by media coverage of the case.

Once the trial started, both Mosby and her ex-husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, provided testimony, with the latter saying he lied about their federal tax debt because he was embarrassed.

Mosby told the courts she did not make any false statements intentionally and signed the loan applications in good faith.

But it was her failure to disclose the debt on her applications that contributed to the mortgage fraud charges.

Prosecutors alleged during the trial that Mosby lied about getting a $5,000 gift from her husband at the time, which helped her get a lower interest rate.

The gift is what led to the conviction, as prosecutors traced it back to her account.

Prosecutors had to prove Mosby knowingly made a false statement that affected the mortgage application process, in order to get a conviction.

In Monday’s appeal, Mosby asked the court to toss the convictions for several reasons. One reason was that prosecutors failed to prove that the fraud took place in Maryland, where she was indicted.

"During trial, defense counsel argued that, under this Court's precedent, the jury had to be instructed that predatory acts ‘cannot provide a basis for venue’ and that, therefore, ‘mere preparation of a false statement cannot provide a basis for venue’ in a mortgage fraud prosecution," the defense wrote. "Instead, Counsel argued, the jury had to unanimously find that conduct essential to the charged offense occurred in Maryland. The court disagreed (and rejected the defense's proposed instruction), instead instructing that the government's venue burden was to prove that ‘any act in furtherance of the crime occurred within’ Maryland."

Her attorneys also argue the judge improperly allowed questions about Mosby’s convictions of perjury during the mortgage fraud trial, and also allowed the prosecution to introduce evidence of how she used retirement funds.

"In short, the government’s repeated invocation of the use of the distributions encouraged jurors to convict not because Ms. Mosby had committed perjury but because they viewed her as a wealthy woman and a public figure motivated by greed," Mosby’s team wrote. "Such appeals to animosity toward the rich (putting aside that Ms. Mosby was not in fact wealthy) are improper."

Mosby is also asking the court to stop the government from seizing her condominium in Longboat Key, and in the appeal claimed she could have purchased the property without the gift letter. Ordering the nearly $900,000 condominium’s forfeiture, they argue, would violate Mosby’s constitutional rights because the fine is excessive.

"The Longboat Key condominium is now her only significant asset — she is otherwise deeply in debt — and has generated much-needed rental income during some periods when she is not using it," the lawyers claim.

Mosby’s team consists of Daniel S. Volchok and attorneys from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C.

Mosby gained a national profile for prosecuting Baltimore police officers after Freddie Gray, a Black man, died in police custody.

What a wholly arrogant bitch.

The fine is excessive? That’s rich. Did she look at the fine that her brethren in NY levied against Donald Trump?

Former Baltimore prosecutor attends barbecue held in her honor while on home detention

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...2fdfd33067203&ei=125

Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was out partying with friends, supporters and family members at an event located several miles from her home in Baltimore over the weekend despite being ordered by a judge to a year of home detention.

Mosby was convicted on one count of mortgage fraud in February after she testified that she unintentionally made false statements on loan applications to buy two Florida vacation homes.

In November, she was convicted of two counts of perjury by a federal jury after she falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city’s retirement fund. A judge sentenced Mosby to a year of home detention and three years of supervised release in May.

Mosby posted a video on Instagram on Thursday of her with family and friends at a "thank-you barbecue" in Clarksville, Maryland. In the video slideshow, Mosby is seen wearing an ankle monitor.

The court-ordered home detention requires Mosby to remain confined to her home in Fells Point as well as communal areas at her apartment complex, according to FOX 45 in Baltimore.

She is also permitted to leave her residence for doctor appointments, court dates, child care responsibilities, employment-related reasons and to meet with her legal team. Travel outside for these reasons must be pre-approved.

When it comes to employment or child care requests, the station learned from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland that the former prosecutor is not required to consult with the government ahead of time.

Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Attorney Erek Barron's office for confirmation and clarification on the matter.

The station added that the online federal court system did not show anything was filed by Mosby or her team seeking permission to attend the barbecue in Howard County.

Last week, Mosby’s legal team filed a brief with the federal appeals court seeking to have her name cleared while pleading with the court to find flaws in the two trials in which she was convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud.

In the court filing first reported on by the Baltimore Sun and obtained by Fox News Digital, Mosby said her conviction was the result of a prosecution that was "ill-advised and ill-conceived from the beginning."

Mosby says she was unfairly targeted during the investigation, although the brief does not allege she was the victim of a racially or politically motivated prosecution.

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Mosby after allegations that she claimed a pandemic-related hardship to pull money from her retirement account then used the money as down payments on two Florida properties.

Prosecutors also said she repeatedly lied on the mortgage applications.

While Mosby’s mortgage fraud trial was slated to take place in Baltimore, it was ultimately moved to Greenbelt, Maryland, because of concerns potential jurors might be biased by media coverage of the case.

Once the trial started, both Mosby and her ex-husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, provided testimony, with the latter saying he lied about their federal tax debt because he was embarrassed.

Mosby told the courts she did not make any false statements intentionally and signed the loan applications in good faith.

But it was her failure to disclose the debt on her applications that contributed to the mortgage fraud charges.

Prosecutors alleged during the trial that Mosby lied about getting a $5,000 gift from her husband at the time, which helped her get a lower interest rate.

The gift is what led to the conviction, as prosecutors traced it back to her account.

I'm sure she met with her lawyers at the BBQ.

Put her in an actual jail for the remainder of her sentence.