BREAKING NEWS – Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby pleaded not guilty to charges she falsely claimed a coronavirus-related financial hardship in order to withdraw thousands of dollars from her city retirement fund in relation to vacation home purchases in Florida.
Earlier last month a grand jury indicted her on two counts of perjury and making false statements on a loan application to purchase the vacation homes. She also allegedly failed to disclose past unpaid federal taxes on the mortgage applications, the indictment said. She pleaded not guilty to all four counts, FOX 45 of Baltimore reported.
“This is a politically charged case,” her defense attorney A. Scott Bolden said. “It seems to me that people are still holding it against her by the incompetent way she handled the high profile Freddie Gray case. They concluded that just because she was a bumbling idiot in one aspect of her career, and she was, that she’s dishonest. I am going to prove in court that because she’s stupid, doesn’t mean she’s a liar.”