Kamala Harris-Backed State’s Attorney Indicted For Pretending To Be Poor So She Could Exploit COVID Help To Buy Vacation Homes
By: Jordan Boyd
January 14, 2022
A federal grand jury indicted Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby on Thursday after she lied about her financial status to purchase two properties in Florida.
The progressive official, whose reported annual salary is near $240,000, was charged with perjury and making false statements about her financial situation during COVID-19 to obtain premature access to her city retirement savings. Mosby was awarded at least $90,000 from that savings under a CARES Act provision that allowed government employees to dip into their retirement accounts if they were struggling to make ends meet. Despite claiming she was facing dire financial straits in Baltimore, Mosby used the money she withdrew to purchase vacation homes in Kissimmee near Disney World and Long Boat Key.
Federal prosecutors said Mosby’s lies grew when she obscured “outstanding federal tax debt” on a mortgage loan application and rented out one of her Florida homes after stating she wouldn’t.
“Mosby had not experienced adverse financial consequences stemming from the coronavirus as a result of ‘being quarantined, furloughed or laid off’ or ‘having reduced work hours’ or ‘due to lack of childcare’ or ‘the closing or reduction of hours of a business I own or operate,’” federal prosecutors wrote, noting that her salary actually increased during the height of the pandemic.
Mosby’s attorney claimed the charges were “bogus” and an attempt to hurt Mosby’s chances in the upcoming election.
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