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Marilyn Mosby, Baltimore’s top prosecutor, pleads not guilty to perjury charges
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Baltimore Metropolis State’s Lawyer Marilyn Mosby pleaded not responsible Friday to prices she falsely claimed a coronavirus-related monetary hardship to withdraw 1000’s of {dollars} from her metropolis retirement fund in relation to trip house purchases in Florida.
Earlier final month a grand jury indicted her on two counts of perjury and making false statements on a mortgage software to buy the holiday properties. She additionally allegedly didn’t disclose previous unpaid federal taxes on the mortgage functions. She pleaded not responsible to all 4 counts, FOX 45 of Baltimore reported.
Mosby, 42, has refused to resign and has claimed the fees are politically motivated.
“This can be a politically charged case,” her protection lawyer A. Scott Bolden stated, including that Mosby desires her trial to begin inside two months. “My shopper is in the midst of a re-election marketing campaign. The federal government has determined to deliver an indictment towards her 4 or 5 months out.”
BALTIMORE PROSECUTOR MARILYN MOSBY HINTS INDICTMENT AGAINST HER IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED
Mosby allegedly claimed she had suffered financially due to the coronavirus on an software so as to take $90,000 from her retirement account and finally withdrew $81,000, in keeping with FOX 45. In 2020, Mosby’s wage was about $247,000 and was by no means decreased due to the pandemic, in keeping with the indictment.
Baltimore State’s Lawyer Marilyn Mosby addresses the media exterior her workplace on a day after her indictment on federal perjury prices on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022.
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U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide J. Mark Coulson, who presided over Friday’s listening to, instructed Bolden he should take up his request for a trial date with U.S. District Decide Lydia Kay Griggsby. A convention name between Griggby and the legal professionals is scheduled for Feb. 23.
Mosby was elected because the state’s lawyer in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.
Baltimore State’s Lawyer Marilyn Mosby is interviewed by NBC Information whereas strolling by way of the town’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, Aug. 24, 2016.
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She first got here to nationwide prominence in 2015 as a prosecutor on the Freddie Grey case, a Black man who died in police custody. Mosby introduced prices towards six law enforcement officials however all six have been finally acquitted or had prices towards them dropped.
Mosby maintains her innocence. “I needed the individuals of Baltimore to listen to it from me: I’ve performed nothing fallacious. I didn’t defraud anybody to take cash from my retirement financial savings,” she stated in January.
Mosby’s husband is Nick Mosby, president of the Baltimore Metropolis Council.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
