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Former Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby is seeking a presidential pardon as she faces decades behind bars for perjury and mortgage fraud.
The ex-prosecutor, 44, insisted to MSNBC's Joy Reid that she has done 'absolutely nothing wrong, nothing illegal, nothing criminal', and argued that Biden dismissing her conviction would be 'appropriate.'
Mosby said her conviction was a 'political attack' against her, with Reid citing her decision to charge police officers involved in the controversial 2015 death of Freddie Gray as the reason she 'found herself on the other side of the courtroom.'
She is set to be sentenced on May 23, after a jury found her guilty of illegally withdrawing funds from her city retirement and lying on a mortgage application for a Florida home she bought with the money.
Former Baltimore DA Marilyn Mosby is seeking a presidential pardon as she faces decades behind bars for perjury and mortgage fraud
Mosby, seen after her conviction in February, insisted that she has done 'absolutely nothing wrong, nothing illegal, nothing criminal', and argued that Biden dismissing her conviction would be 'appropriate'
At her trial, the court heard how Mosby lied on her mortgage application for a $428,000 home in Long Boat Key, Florida, including the false claim she received a $5,000 gift from her husband.
Prosecutors said she claimed to receive the $5,000 to secure a lower interest rate, while she actually sent the funds to her husband first for him to then send back in a financial sleight of hand.
In her interview with MSNBC, Reid said she was stunned that Mosby was prosecuted for withdrawing 'her own money', as she implied Mosby's past run-ins with Republicans may have made her a target.
Mosby, a progressive whose soft-on-crime stance was blamed for soaring crime in murder-ravaged Baltimore, was notably indicted by Democrat US Attorney Erek Barron and her trial was overseen by Biden-nominated Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby, reports Capital Gazette.
Speaking about herself in the third-person, Mosby said she sees her past actions as State's Attorney as the reason she is facing prison, adding that she hopes the people she fought for will now step up to support her.
'If they can do this to Marilyn Mosby, who had the audacity to challenge the status quo, they can do this to anybody,' she said.
'I want this justice system that I fought so hard to equalize and to balance the scales of justice, where the business model is based off the backs of black and brown people.'
Her call for a presidential pardon comes as an online petition to President Biden reached almost 10,000 signatures, which she did not launch herself but has reportedly been promoting.
However, despite feeling a pardon would be 'appropriate', she also reportedly has not submitted an application to the Office of the Pardon Attorney, which reviews cases and makes recommendations to the president.
This luxury condo located in Longboat Key, Florida was the property that Mosby lied about on mortgage documents
Mosby falsely claimed she was facing COVID-related financial troubles to use her city retirement fund to help her buy a property in Kissimmee. She claimed this home was a second residence in order to get a lower interest rate
When asked about the pardon, Mosby added: 'I know that I've done absolutely nothing wrong, nothing criminal, and to be separated from my children for 40 years as a result of withdrawing $90,000 of my own money, it just makes absolutely no sense.'
'They have done this to demonize me, to vilify me, and to break me... I've lost everything.'
But while Mosby argues her conviction is unjust, her critics said her 'failed leadership' while in office exacerbated Baltimore's crime problems.
'The consequences of that failed leadership are going to last for generations,' Medal of Valor recipient and police officer Dave Goitia told DailyMail.com following her conviction in February.
'The victims are the people of Baltimore that suffer violent crime because of a police department that is completely demoralized.'
In particular, Mosby was criticized for her handling of the controversial death of Freddie Gray in 2015, whose death in police custody sparked riots and looting across the city until Mosby brought charges against six police officers who arrested him.
After she failed to convict any of the cops amid claims the charges were unjust - and the DOJ declined to press charges after a federal investigation - some in law enforcement argued she caved to pressure from rioters and targeted the officers as 'sacrificial lambs.'
Mosby also had her own brushes with the law, including a $45,000 tax lien on one of her fraudulent Florida properties despite reportedly earning almost $250,000 a year.
Mosby was sharply criticized in law enforcement circles over her handling of the 2015 death of Freddie Gray (pictured), who died in police custody. Mosby failed to convict any cops involved, and a judge was said to have 'laughed her out of court'
Gray's death sparked riots and looting across Baltimore, resulting in 113 police officers injured, and 486 people arrested, as critics argued Mosby caved to pressure to bring charges unjustly
Mosby lost re-election in 2022 after being indicted by a federal grand jury, with her successor Ivan Bates taking a tougher stance on crime.
The federal criminal charges stemmed from allegations that Mosby claimed a pandemic-related hardship to make early withdrawals from her retirement account, then used that money for down payments on the Florida properties.
At her trial, prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky alleged she repeatedly lied on the mortgage applications, telling the court: 'She was the top prosecutor in the city of Baltimore and oversaw hundreds of lawyers.
'You know what prosecutors know a lot about? Fraud. Mortgage fraud.'
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