Former Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby has applied for a presidential pardon ahead of her upcoming sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud convictions, according to a letter sent Thursday by the Congressional Black Caucus to President Joe Biden. .
Mosby was found guilty of one count of mortgage fraud and two counts of perjury and is scheduled to be sentenced next week.
In February, a federal jury found she made false statements on a mortgage application in Longboat Key, Florida.
The ruling comes nearly three months after the once prominent prosecutor was found guilty by another jury of two counts of perjury related to withdrawing coronavirus relief funds from the city's deferred benefit system. It was given down.
Prosecutors said she claimed she ran into coronavirus-related financial hardship in order to make early withdrawals from her retirement accounts. She then used her funds as down payments on her two vacation properties in Florida.
The 44-year-old's lawyer is asking for probation, while prosecutors are asking for 20 years in prison.
On Thursday, 60 members of Congress said in a letter to the president that Mosby's prosecution was politically motivated.
In an obtained letter, Rep. Stephen Horsford, a Democrat from Nevada and chairman of the CBC, said, “As a nation that leads by example, our justice system has been weaponized to impede progress toward a more perfect union. It must not be done,” he wrote. According to the Baltimore Sun. “Mr. President, we share your desire for racial justice, and this Trump-era prosecution is in direct conflict with the justice system that serves us all.”
Mosby filed the clemency request on Wednesday, according to the letter.
