Former top Baltimore prosecutor convicted of federal perjury charges
Nov 9th, 19:09:15
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters via PiQSuite.com) - Baltimore's former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby was found guilty of perjury on Thursday for falsely claiming financial duress to withdraw funds from a retirement plan.
A U.S. District Court jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, convicted Mosby, 42, on both federal perjury counts she faced after hours of deliberation. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Sentencing has yet to be scheduled.
Elected Maryland state's attorney for Baltimore in 2014 Mosby became the youngest top prosecutor of any major U.S. city and made headlines in 2015 by criminally charging police officers for the death of a Black detainee, Freddie Gray.
Mosby, a Democrat, lost her bid for a third term after she was indicted on federal charges in January 2022.
Mosby said she was innocent of wrongdoing and the victim of a politically motivated prosecution by adversaries in the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office seeking to ruin her re-election chances.
Mosby was convicted of twice falsely claiming in 2020 to have suffered a work-related financial hardship from COVID-19 in order to request two early withdrawals totaling $90,000 from her city employee retirement account.
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