Marilyn Mosby, the former Maryland State’s Attorney for the City of Baltimore, was found guilty of perjury charges Thursday after a brief three-day trial.
The jury deliberated for a little under eight hours.
Mosby was accused of falsely certifying—twice—that she qualified under the CARES Act to make early withdrawals from her IRC 457(b) City of Baltimore deferred compensation plan.
She claimed that she’d experienced “adverse financial consequences” due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At trial, her lawyers argued that she reasonably believed that she qualified for the exception because a travel business she founded in 2019 had been “devastated” by the ...
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