Marilyn and Nick Mosby

Links to Baltimore Brew's coverage of Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby, including the story we broke on July 16, 2020, about Marilyn Mosby's travel and private businesses.

BREAKING: Marilyn Mosby used campaign funds to pay her defense attorneys

A report filed last night shows Mosby paid nearly $50,000 to lawyers representing her as she faced a criminal probe, despite Maryland law prohibiting such expenditures.

Again declaring Marilyn Mosby innocent, her attorney responds to questions about her companies

How could Mosby claim financial hardship on businesses that her spokeswoman and prior lawyers said were not operating? “I don’t know how you define operational. . . They were running.”

At the heart of Marilyn Mosby’s perjury charges, the web of words she wove about her travel company

A lawyer breaks down the conflicting statements by Baltimore’s criminally indicted top prosecutor about the private travel company she formed. [ANALYSIS]

Many questions linger around private travel businesses Mosby cites in her defense

Her attorney says Mosby did suffer Covid-related hardship – from her private companies – but Mosby has previously said the companies had no clients or revenue and were not operational.

Marilyn Mosby indicted for perjury and filing false mortgage applications

Federal prosecutors say the Baltimore State’s Attorney lied on applications for mortgages to buy Florida condominiums and lied about Covid hardship to gain access to tax-deferred retirement money.

Marilyn Mosby is holding a fundraiser this evening while her fate is up in the air

“Hope all my peeps can make it,” Mosby writes as the race for her seat heats up and a separate online fund raises money for her and her City Council president husband’s legal defense in federal probe.

New travel rules approved as Marilyn Mosby haunts a virtual meeting

Mayor Scott says the new policy will cover Baltimore’s 18 elected officials, including State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Earlier today, Nick Mosby appeared to exclude his wife from travel disclosure.

Nick Mosby again requests delay of travel policies that would affect his wife

The proposed travel rules came about after State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby disputed an inspector general’s report about her extensive travels in 2018 and 2019.

Amended travel policy would require State’s Attorney Mosby to report her trips

UPDATED: At Nick Mosby’s request, the Board of Estimates deferred action on the new travel rules – rules that came about after reports of his wife’s travels in 2018 and 2019.

Radio interview turns tense as Council President denies federal tax lien

Nick Mosby is confronted with a copy of the tax lien notice whose existence he had just denied.

Marilyn Mosby amends her state ethics disclosure and declares her innocence

UPDATED: The changes have little to do with the criminal probe by the U.S. attorney’s office into the Mosbys’ taxes, campaign finances and private businesses.

State’s Attorney Mosby: Baltimore will stop drug and sex prosecutions

City will partner with groups that provide services to sex workers and with Baltimore Crisis Response to divert cases away from law enforcement, her office says.

Hitting back at federal prosecutors, Marilyn Mosby’s lawyer tells a different story from the 2018 rendition

With a grand jury investigation gaining traction, attorney A. Scott Bolden has switched around the storyline of a controversial firing by Marilyn Mosby.

Marilyn Mosby said in mortgage documents she’d use Florida property as second home, then she made it a rental

By signing a rider that she would not rent out the property, Mosby got a roughly $50,000 break on the down payment and will pay a lower interest rate.

BREW EXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Mosby purchased a $476,000 Florida condominium last month

The purchase was made just weeks before federal prosecutors placed Mosby and her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby, under official investigation. ••UPDATE•• The Brew finds that Marilyn Mosby owns a second Florida house.

Federal prosecutors are investigating Marilyn and Nick Mosby’s businesses, travel and tax deductions

UPDATED: The U.S. Attorney’s Office looks at activities that were first disclosed by Baltimore Brew, in exclusive reporting that began last summer and has since continued.

Marilyn Mosby refuses to say if campaign funds were used to send threatening letter to former prosecutor

The Mosby campaign paid $11,000 to a Washington law firm that acted on Mosby’s personal behalf, which is a prohibited practice under Maryland election law.

Implying racial bias, Nick Mosby fails to stop BOE from spiking a contract

The latest battleground between the Council president and the Scott administration is a Black-owned towing company whose performance was faulted by the police and inspector general.

Nick Mosby uses BOE as a sounding board for complaints about the inspector general

Attorneys for two towing companies cited for irregularities are given free rein to air their grievances. IG Cumming fires back.

Nick Mosby, at loggerheads with Scott over new staff, secures some upgraded positions

The Council president has not abandoned his campaign to add staff – and he’s willing to hold up confirmation of Scott’s cabinet appointments to get his way. UPDATED.

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Presser questioning Baltimore’s inspector general is postponed when it coincides with strippers’ protest

A scheduled news conference by Marilyn Mosby supporters is drowned out by exotic dancers saying they’re being unfairly treated by Covid restrictions.

Cumming says she won’t revise her Mosby report despite demands by the state’s attorney to do so

“To me as the investigator, there was never a question” that city travel policy required reporting by elected officials as well as employees, Inspector General says in WYPR interview.

City Solicitor indicates Mosby’s failure to report travel was not a violation because the rules are ambiguous

It’s not clear that the state’s attorney, mayor, and other elected officials must follow the same reporting rules as city workers, he says. Scott convenes a work group to clarify.

Mosby amends her finance report, adding $19,223.61 to her campaign bank account

The amendment squares her campaign’s bank account with the cash balance reported by her committee. Retired state investigator Jim Cabezas renews his call for an investigation.

Mosby’s campaign finance report is riddled with mismatched names and addresses

Who actually contributed money to Baltimore’s state’s attorney last year? Based on the report that Marilyn Mosby filed with the State Elections Board, it’s impossible to say. A BREW EXCLUSIVE.

Mosby campaign issues statement on Brew’s story about her legal fees

“There was never an intent to mislead,” Mosby’s political committee says, while a former chief investigator calls on State Prosecutor Charlton Howard to investigate Mosby’s use of campaign funds to pay for her lawyers.

Cumming stands her ground, dismissing criticism by Mosby’s lawyers

Says it is “well-established” practice for city officials to get approval for travel even if no taxpayer funds are involved.

Marilyn Mosby’s lawyers were paid with campaign funds

In a possible violation of state law, legal fees arising from the inspector general’s investigation of the travel and business activities of Baltimore’s state’s attorney were paid by Mosby’s campaign committee. A BREW EXCLUSIVE.

For Marilyn Mosby, a taxing question

Under IRS rules, was it allowable for Baltimore’s state’s attorney to deduct travel expenses on companies she created but says she never operated? [OP-ED]

Seeking exoneration, Marilyn Mosby instead gets a highly critical report from Baltimore’s IG

The state’s attorney was gone from the office for 144 work days in 2018-19, did not report 15 out-of-town trips to the Board of Estimates and used LLCs she said were not operating as businesses as tax write-offs.

Mosby shares his vision for Baltimore with a speech and special video

At his inauguration, with rhetorical flourishes and high production values, the new City Council President promises “I will fight for you!”

Nick Mosby says he paid his federal tax lien

Baltimore’s next City Council President holds his first post-election press conference and responds to a backlog of media questions.

Nick Mosby’s real estate partner conducts questionable evictions

The West Baltimore property is not registered as a rental and is not lead-certified, according to online records. Mosby’s partner disputes the online record and claims the delegate co-owns the house in name only.

Nick Mosby owns consulting company based at the address of a contributor

A company owned by the expected incoming City Council president is linked to the offices of developer Samuel Himmelrich. What Monumental Squared LLC actually does is unclear; multiple attempts to reach Mosby are unsuccessful.

Mayor Young seeks nine new positions for his ally, Nick Mosby

BREW EXCLUSIVE: Brandon Scott says he will object to a deal that increases the number of hires by the next Council President by 33%.

Former state investigator asks for probe of Marilyn Mosby’s travel and consulting business

Baltimore’s State’s Attorney initially failed to disclose three companies she formed in 2019 amid numerous out-of-town trips.

Mosby asks Inspector General to review her travel and private businesses following Brew reporting

Baltimore’s top prosecutor says this website’s disclosure of LLCs she formed and that she was away for 85 days in 2018 and 2019 was “misleading and unethical.”

Marilyn Mosby answers few questions about her travel company

Baltimore’s top prosecutor goes on social media to decry The Brew’s reporting of her out-of-state travel. A closer look at the businesses that Mosby formed in 2019.

The Peripatetic Prosecutor: Marilyn Mosby took 23 trips in 2018 and 2019, accepting $30,000 in reimbursements

Baltimore’s top prosecutor has also formed a travel company, reportedly to help underserved Black families vacation at discount prices. SPECIAL REPORT.