Baltimore State Attorney who faces perjury charges over COVID hardship claim tries to have case thrown out and says she’s being targeted for being ‘woke and black’

  • Lawyers for Marilyn Mosby accused prosecutors of a personal vendetta against their client Friday, saying one spread rumors she cheated on her husband
  • Mosby is charged with perjury and making false statements on loan applications for a pair of home purchases in Florida amounting to $1.02million 
  • In a motion filed Friday, Mosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors of a vendetta against their client, saying one even spread rumors she cheated on her husband
  • ‘The prosecution against… Mosby has been driven by malicious personal, political, and even racial animus on the part of the prosecutors,’ they wrote
  • The team called their client’s indictment the culmination of a ‘crusade to ruin the political career of a young, progressive, Black, female elected official’
  • Lawyers accused lead DA Erek Barron of ‘prosecutorial vindictiveness,’ saying he has ‘expressed disapproval of her both personally and professionally’
  • Mosby has maintained her innocence in regards to the charges, and the contents of Friday’s filing echo comments made in public about the case. 

 

A Baltimore State Attorney facing a $1million perjury lawsuit for fudging financial numbers while taking out a loan for a pair of holiday home purchases in Florida has tried to get the case thrown out, claiming she’s being targeted due to the fact that she’s black and progressive.

In their most recent filing in the federal case, attorneys for Marilyn Mosby, 42 – who is charged with two counts of perjury and two counts of submitting false statements on loan applications to make the purchases, which amounted to $1.02million –  accused federal prosecutors of having a personal vendetta against their client, claiming one of the legal eagles even spread rumors she cheated on her husband.

‘Since its inception, the prosecution against State’s Attorney Mosby has been driven by malicious personal, political, and even racial animus on the part of the prosecutors,’ Mosby’s attorneys wrote in motion to toss the case filed Friday.

The city official’s legal team characterized their client’s indictment as the culmination of a ‘crusade to ruin the political career of a young, progressive, Black, female elected official.’ 

The lawyers specifically accused the prosecution’s head lawyer, Erek Barron, of ‘prosecutorial vindictiveness,’ saying the fellow Baltimore State Attorney – who is also black – has ‘expressed disapproval of her both personally and professionally.’

The motion added that the Democrat prosecutor repeatedly questioned Mosby’s ability as an attorney, and spread false rumors the Baltimore DA had cheated on her husband, Baltimore Democratic City Council President Nick Mosby.