NARRATIVE FAIL. Fox News ran a story Friday headlined, “
Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby found guilty on 2 counts of perjury.” Until she lost re-election in 2022, Marilyn Mosby was Baltimore’s woke, Soros-funded State Attorney. (Baltimore is currently undergoing controlled social demolition, earning a travel recommendation just after Gaza City, but still beating Toronto, Canada).
State Attorney Mosby first leapt into the public’s gimlet eye in 2015, after she hastily charged six police officers with murdering homeless drug addict Freddie Gray, who suddenly and unexpectedly died in police custody. It turned out later that Freddie had overdone it a little with his recreational drug habit, which was what killed him after all. Despite her leaping to conclusions, leftists still loved Mosby for bringing “justice” for Freddie — the idea being that even if the officers (most of them black)
didn’t kill Freddy, they probably would have if they’d had the chance. Or something.
In 2015, all the liberals loved Ms. Mosby. Becoming possibly the first State Attorney to grace the magazine’s front page, Vogue even gave the luckless prosecutor cover billing in June of that year. But she’d jumped the gun and none of the officers were ultimately convicted. But in the meantime, Baltimore endured a series of violent protests and suffered widespread property damage.
While rushing to charge six innocent police officers probably seemed like a good idea at the time, it appears that when Ms. Mosby lost the Freddie Gray cases, she
gained the cold, undying hatred of Baltimore’s criminal justice machine. And once she lost her State Attorney protections, the former huntress became a fat free-range turkey on the day before Thanksgiving.
Indictments ensued. On Thursday, a federal jury found Ms. Mosby guilty of two counts of perjury. She faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for
each charge (ten years total).
Following the trend, Mosby’s perjury charges were
process crimes, where it’s not clear there was any victim. The former prosecutor was convicted for falsely claiming ‘financial hardship’ on a 2021 form she completed to get an early $90,000 distribution from her own City of Baltimore retirement accounts. She used the money as a down payment for buying two Florida vacation homes. The problem was, the form required Mosby to certify her financial ‘hardship’ under penalty of perjury.
During 2020 — Mosby’s year of “hardship” — the poor dear somehow struggled by on her $250,000 base salary. So the jury found it not
too terribly hard.
Piling on, Mosby’s criminal troubles didn’t stop with her perjury conviction. Her two Florida vacation homes have fueled another, completely separate federal criminal prosecution. In that case, with a trial still pending, Ms. Mosby faces two
more counts of making ‘false mortgage applications.’
The superficial moral of Mosby’s story is, don’t lock up cops unless you have the goods. But there’s a bigger, deeper story: We now have so many crimes on the books now that, as Soviet secret police master Lavrentiy Beria infamously said,
show me the man, and I will show you the crime. In other words, fill out a form wrong and face decades in prison.
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Couldn't be that she's a damn crook who wasn't smart enough to cover her tracks.
