Marilyn and Nick Mosby
Marilyn Mosby faces possible disbarment in wake of today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision
A bar counsel proceeding to suspend the law license of Baltimore’s former top prosecutor was blocked until her federal appeals were exhausted. Now they are.
Above: Marilyn Mosby currently bills herself as the managing partner of the legal, political and travel consulting firm that first got her into legal trouble. (mahoganyelite.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Marilyn J. Mosby’s appeal of her perjury conviction, paving the way for formal discipline and the possible disbarment of Baltimore’s former state’s attorney.
The court did not give any written reasoning for its refusal to review “Mosby, Marilyn J. v. United States.”
In separate trials in 2023 and 2024, Mosby was convicted of two counts of perjury and one count of making a false statement on a mortgage loan application.
The convictions were related to her withdrawal of retirement funds as a Covid-19 financial hardship emergency while state’s attorney, which she then used to buy two vacation homes in Florida.
Following her first conviction in 2023, the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission moved to immediately suspend Mosby’s license to practice law in Maryland. The bar counsel said her conviction of a “serious crime” was a violation of ethics rules for lawyers.
But in a subsequent 4-2 decision, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that state disciplinary proceedings must wait until all her federal appellate reviews were exhausted.
Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit threw out Mosby’s conviction for mortgage fraud, but upheld the two perjury convictions.
Earlier this year, the same court refused to rehear her case, setting up her petition to the U.S. Supreme Court and the final resolution of her case today.
Now 46, Mosby was admitted to the Maryland bar in December 2006. She was elected Baltimore state’s attorney in 2014 and was reelected in 2018.
Troubles with a Travel Company
While she and her ex-husband Nick Mosby, then Baltimore City Council president, faced tax lien issues, her criminal troubles began after The Brew reported on her travel expenses and revealed the existence of the “Mahogany Elite” travel and consulting companies she incorporated.
Mosby denounced the stories and demanded that Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming uncover “the truth about these false conjectures and insinuations.”
The Cumming report raised more questions about her travel arrangements and the use of the private LLCs to pay for trips and write off federal taxes.
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In January 2022, Mosby was indicted on federal perjury and mortgage fraud charges arising from claims she made in order to withdraw without penalty $90,000 from her deferred compensation plan to make down payments on properties in Kissimmee and Longboat Key, FL.
After being convicted in two separate trials, Mosby was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby in May 2024 to three years of supervised release, with the first year on home detention, and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.
At the sentencing, Mosby maintained her innocence and, claiming she was a victim of the Trump White House, mounted relentless legal challenges with her court-appointed attorneys and sought unsuccessfully a pardon from President Joe Biden.
By this time, Mosby was no longer Baltimore state’s attorney, having losing to Ivan Bates in the Democratic primary in July 2022.
Post-Conviction Activities
While on home detention, Mosby was hired as director of global strategy for GLOM (God’s Love Outreach Ministries) Global.
The for-profit corporation, which manages transitional housing, outpatient clinics and substance abuse programs in northern California, is trying to expand its network to both Baltimore and Maryland.
Her former husband, Nick, lists himself as GLOM’s vice president of operations, although his position has never been verified by GLOM’s founder, Rev. Allen S. Turner.
Mosby continues to serve as managing director of Mahogany Elite Enterprises and its two trade names, Mahogany Elite Consulting and Mahogany Elite Travel.
Last week she said she attended the Fair and Just Prosecution Initiative convening in Minneapolis. “I left sobered – reminded of how far we’ve come as a nation, but how much further we still have to go when it comes to police-involved deaths and equal justice.
“During my first term as state’s attorney,” she continued on Facebook, “I made the decision to apply one standard of justice to everyone – including law enforcement – in the case involving the death of Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. I had no idea then how that decision would become a catalyst for so many policy and prosecutorial decisions that followed.”
Since her release from home detention in June 2025, Mosby has been active on the speaking circuit, last month addressing a “litigation retreat” held at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. (Facebook)
“I stand by my innocence”
In a statement released today, Mosby said she is innocent “unequivocally” of perjury charges related to the Covid-19 retirement withdrawals.
“For too long, powerful institutions have expected people to accept injustice simply because it comes wrapped in the authority of government. I will not,” she asserted.
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