Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is seeking permission from a judge to modify her home detention conditions to include a curfew, citing a job that requires her to travel throughout Maryland. Mosby was convicted of mortgage fraud and perjury in February and November, respectively, and was sentenced to a year of home detention and three years of supervised release in May. Her attorneys have asked the court to replace her home detention with a curfew that allows her to leave her home between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., as her new job as director of global strategic planning with an undisclosed company requires her to travel frequently within the state.
The company Mosby works for is based in California, but her role is based in Maryland, overseeing facilities that provide mental health, substance abuse, and traditional housing services to individuals in various locations across the U.S. Under the current home detention conditions, Mosby is required to provide a schedule of every movement she plans to make outside of her home at least a week in advance, limiting her flexibility to effectively perform her job. Her attorneys argue that this requirement hinders her employment, livelihood, and ability to support her family, and request a modification to a curfew restriction instead.
Federal prosecutors had filed criminal charges against Mosby after allegations that she claimed a pandemic-related hardship to withdraw money from her retirement account and used it as down payments on two Florida properties, as well as repeatedly lied on mortgage applications. Mosby’s mortgage fraud trial was moved to Greenbelt, Maryland, from Baltimore due to concerns of biased jurors. Both Mosby and her ex-husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, provided testimony during the trial, with Nick admitting to lying about their federal tax debt due to embarrassment.
Mosby claimed she did not make any false statements intentionally but signed the loan applications in good faith. However, her failure to disclose the debt on her applications led to the mortgage fraud charges. Prosecutors alleged that Mosby lied about receiving a $5,000 gift from her husband at the time to get a lower interest rate, with the gift ultimately leading to her conviction. Mosby’s attorneys have not responded to requests for comment on the new motion to modify her home detention conditions.
If the modification is granted, Mosby would be allowed to move outside her home between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. for her job, enabling her to effectively work the minimum 30 hours required under the conditions of her supervised release. The alteration would also allow her to pay her bills and support her family following the financial difficulties she has faced since her prosecution. Failing to reduce her hours of home detention could jeopardize her employment, livelihood, and the well-being of her family. The Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to the report.
