Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is claiming she planned to launch her travel business for Black women professionals while she was still the city’s top prosecutor but scrapped those plans in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the travel industry, new court documents say.
Whether the assertion is true may be central to Mosby’s upcoming federal trial on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.
Federal prosecutors say the assertion is an effort by Mosby to sneak in testimony without taking the stand. But Mosby’s defense team appears prepared to argue that the business’s failure was a pandemic-related setback that qualified Mosby to make an early withdrawal from her retirement account under the CARES Act.
Mosby is accused of lying about suffering a pandemic-related hardship to withdraw the money, which she put toward the down payments on two Florida vacation homes.
According to new court documents, Mosby told a defense expert she planned to hold a launch event for the travel business, Mahogany Elite Enterprises, in 2020 — though later that year, after the pandemic had caused widespread shutdowns, Mosby said she had no plans to run the business while she was state’s attorney.
The claim by Mosby appears among a raft of documents filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Two of Mosby’s motions were filed under seal, a practice that has become a habit for the defense team since Mosby’s indictment in January 2022.
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