‘Poor’ Decision: State Attorney Pretends to Be Broke for COVID Cash to Buy Vacation Homes.

Marilyn Mosby, a Baltimore prosecutor and Kamala Harris protégé, was indicted by a federal grand jury after lying about her finances so she could buy two vacation homes in Florida with COVID relief cash.

Vice President Harris once said of Mosby “she cannot fail.”

(Another thing Harris got wrong).

Mosby makes a quarter million dollars a year. For reference, the average yearly salary for Americans fluctuates around $50,000 dollars a year. She certainly didn’t need help during the early stages of the COVID crisis. But, she lied about her finances anyway to prematurely get her hands on some of the city’s retirement savings.

According to the Federalist, Mosby was awarded “at least $90,000 from the savings under the CARES Act provision that allowed government employees to dip into their retirement accounts if they were struggling to make ends meet. Despite claiming she was facing dire financial straits in Baltimore, Mosby used the money she withdrew to purchase vacation homes in Kissimmee near Disney World and Long Boat Key.”

That sounds so lovely and so totally illegal.

“Federal prosecutors said Mosby’s lies grew when she obscured “outstanding federal tax debt” on a mortgage loan application and rented out one of her Florida homes after stating she wouldn’t.”

“Mosby had not experienced adverse financial consequences stemming from the coronavirus as a result of ‘being quarantined, furloughed or laid off’ or ‘having reduced work hours’ or ‘due to lack of childcare’ or ‘the closing or reduction of hours of a business I own or operate,’” federal prosecutors wrote. In fact, her salary actually increased during the height of the pandemic.

(Insert awkward Kamala Harris laugh here.)

Mosby’s attorney says the charges are bogus, of course, and claims these are smear tactics due to the upcoming election.

“We will fight these charges vigorously, and I remain confident that once all the evidence is presented, that she will prevail against these bogus charges — charges that are rooted in personal, political and racial animus five months from her election,” he said in a statement.

Who knows? Maybe Mosby’s powerful-yet-historically-ineffective friend Kamala can help her get out of this one. In 2018, Kamala said of Mosby, “When we march and we shout about what we need to do to reform the criminal justice system, we better understand that we got to march and shout with our paychecks and all of the work that we can do to actually make sure that somebody like Marilyn Mosby gets re-elected into that office. To not only get convictions, but have convictions.”

…and get convicted.