The former top prosecutor in Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, 44, was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest, 100 hours of community service, and three years of supervised release Thursday, Erek Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland announced.
The prosecutor was convicted of fraud for lying about financial hardship during the pandemic to buy a beach house with money from the federal government.
However, she would serve no prison time. The ex-prosecutor was found guilty of multiple felony charges in two separate trials, one that took place this year and one last fall.
During the sentencing hearing in Prince County, U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby sentenced Mosby to home confinement with electric monitoring and also ordered forfeiture of 90% of the property Mosby bought with her fraud mortgage.
Mosby was a top prosecutor and she became popular when she charged six Baltimore police officers in connection to the death of Freddie Gray.
A Black man, Gray, 25, died in police custody a week after he suffered a severe spinal injury while traveling without a seatbelt in the back of a van on the way to the police station.
Under the law, Mosby had faced up to 35 years in prison for her fraud and perjury convictions.
“The court agrees these are very serious offenses and that this conduct displays a pattern of dishonesty,” The Baltimore Sun reported Griggsby told Mosby in court.
“This dishonesty also occurred when you held the highest office for a prosecutor in the City of Baltimore.”
In February, Mosby was convicted of making a false mortgage application when she was Baltimore City State’s Attorney, relating to the purchase of a condominium in Long Boat Key, Florida.
