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Mosby, 44, was the youngest chief prosecutor for any major U.S.
city at the time of her election as Maryland's state attorney
for Baltimore in 2014. A year later, she made national headlines
by bringing criminal charges against six police officers for the
death of a Black man, Freddie Gray, who sustained fatal injuries
while in custody.
Mosby was found guilty in November of two perjury counts for
twice claiming she had suffered financial problems so she could
request early withdrawals from her municipal retirement account,
taking advantage of a pandemic-era law to help those struggling
to stay afloat. She took out $90,000 to make down payments on
two Florida vacation properties.
In a separate trial months later, Mosby was convicted of lying
on the application to secure a mortgage on one of those
properties. The jury acquitted her of a second count stemming
from allegations that she had failed to disclose federal tax
delinquencies when submitting the loan application for the
second property.
Mosby has maintained her innocence and argued she was the victim
of a politically motivated prosecution by adversaries aiming to
block her re-election. She lost her bid for a third term after
her 2022 indictment.
Federal prosecutors had requested that U.S. District Judge Lydia
Griggsby in Greenbelt, Maryland, sentence Mosby to 1-2/3 years
in prison. Mosby's lawyers had asked for no prison time, arguing
that her long record of public service outweighs her offenses.
According to local reports, several supporters spoke on Mosby's
behalf at the hearing, including high-profile civil rights
attorney Benjamin Crump, LaTosha Brown, co-founder of voting
rights group Black Voters Matter and a wrongfully convicted man
Mosby helped free.
In addition to home detention, Mosby will be under supervised
release for two additional years and will forfeit the vacation
property she purchased using her fraudulent loan application.
Mosby has previously asked the Biden administration for a
pardon.
The Gray case triggered protests and rioting in Baltimore and
added fuel to a nationwide debate over police treatment of
minorities. None of the six officers charged was ultimately
convicted of a crime.
(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Edited by Rod Nickel)
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