Marilyn Mosby, under home confinement, is scheduled to attend film screening
Baltimore’s former top prosecutor has another outside gig while serving a home detention sentence for her three felony convictions
Above: Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is headlining an Associated Black Charities film screening this week.
Federally convicted former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, entering the third month of her one-year sentence of home detention, is attending yet another event, this time across town.
Mosby is scheduled to sit on a panel for a film screening on Thursday sponsored by Associated Black Charities (ABC) that is being held at the Baltimore Unity Hall on Eutaw Place.
Networking begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a screening of “Walking While Black – L.O.V.E. is the Answer” and finishing with a panel discussion. Other panelists include retired Baltimore Police Department official Melvin Russell (who is senior vice president of L.O.V.E. is the Answer) and filmmaker A.J. Ali.
Under the rules of supervision after she was convicted of two felony counts of perjury and one felony count of mortgage fraud, Mosby may travel “for employment, education, religious services, medical treatment, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, court-ordered obligations, child care or other activities approved by the probation officer.”
Online court records do not include any publicly accessible order indicating court approval for this travel.
Mosby’s federal probation officer, Rachel Snyder, has not publicly explained the basis for any permission Mosby may have been given to travel to the event about four miles from her home in Fells Point.
Reached last week, Snyder told The Brew she had “no comment.”
“No comment from our office about Ms. Mosby attending this or any events,” added Angelina Thompson, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Maryland, who said such matters lie with probation officials.
Chrissy Thornton, president and CEO of ABC, said the organization invited Mosby to join the panel discussion of the documentary, released in 2017, which the flier says says focuses on “bridging the gap between peace officers and the rest of the community.”
“This event is part of a regular series,” Thornton said.
She declined to confirm whether Mosby is being paid to participate, saying only that the city’s one-time top prosecutor “is a subject-matter expert whose expertise we appreciate.”
Reached by phone, Mosby hung up after a Brew reporter introduced herself.
“You can lose my number,” she stated before ending the call.
Busy Month of Travel
The cross-town speaking engagement is the latest for Mosby since her sentencing last May to 12 months of home detention and three years of supervised release for her perjury and mortgage fraud convictions.
The felony convictions arose from an investigation into Mosby’s extensive domestic and international trips while Baltimore state’s attorney, and her establishment of a travel and consulting company, Mahogany Elite Enterprises, that figured in her two jury trials.
In August, Mosby attended a party held in Howard County in her honor with live music and barbecue fare.
Earlier this month, she traveled to New York to speak at a “mental health is mental wealth” summit sponsored by a small ministry that offers support to formerly incarcerated women.
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Next she is scheduled to be in Boston for three days next week to challenge an uncle over the financial affairs of her late grandmother’s estate.
At the end of September, Mosby is headed for eight days to Livermore, California, for a training session that her lawyer says is required for a tentative job offer.
U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby agreed to the California trip “for employment purposes” and to the New York and Boston trips “for employment and court-order purposes” with the consent of federal prosecutors.
The latter two travel approvals were sealed by Griggsby and are currently outside public view.
Griggsby has also delayed the forfeiture of Mosby’s condominium in Longboat Key, Florida, which figured prominently in her second trial, pending resolution of Mosby’s appeal of her convictions to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.