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Marilyn Mosby

Balmer Sun, Marilyn Mosby sentenced to year of home detention for perjury, mortgage fraud

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was sentenced Thursday to one year of home detention for perjury and mortgage fraud, with the judge also ordering her to forfeit her Florida condo.

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby spared Mosby from prison, as prosecutors and sentencing guidelines called for, choosing instead to impose a punishment of three years of supervised release. Griggsby also ruled that Mosby has to complete 100 hours of community service while on probation.

Mosby’s supporters cheered in the courtroom when Griggsby announced the sentence as the former prosecutor dabbed at her eyes with a tissue.“The court agrees these are very serious offenses and that this conduct displays a pattern of dishonesty,” Griggsby told Mosby. “This dishonesty also occurred when you held the highest office for a prosecutor in the City of Baltimore.”

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby

Griggsby lamented Mosby’s apparent “lack of contrition” — as evidenced by a national media blitz in which Mosby decried her prosecution as politically motivated — but credited her record of public service. Mosby’s children weighed most heavily on Griggsby in determining a sentence, she said.
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Although Griggsby went against prosecutors’ recommendation for prison time, the judge granted the government’s request to make Mosby give up her Florida condo, which the defense described as her “only major asset.” Prosecutors argued the property represented proceeds of crimes, and Griggsby noted that jurors in February found she lied on the loan application for that condo by falsifying a letter promising she would be gifted $5,000 to close on the property. “The mortgage was obtained because Ms. Mosby obtained the gift letter,” the judge said.

I think she should have been forced to do community service, cleaning up Baltimore police stations.