Former Baltimore County state attorney Marilyn Mosby was found guilty of perjury, leaving her to face a possible ten-year jail sentence.
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Sunday, November 12, 2023
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby officially announces run for reelection
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has announced that she is running for reelection despite her federal indictment.
Watch her announcement video below:
Friday, March 11, 2022
New superseding indictment filed against Marilyn Mosby
A new superseding indictment was filed Thursday against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
The charges are the same; however, prosecutors added new evidence to the charge regarding mortgage fraud that prosecutors say strengthens their case against Mosby.
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Baltimore Train Station Recognized as Part of the Underground Railroad
The National Park Service recently made quite the discovery that was actually hidden in plain sight. The Mount Clare train station in Baltimore, Maryland, is getting recognition for playing a major role in the Underground Railroad. Kris Hoellen, the executive director of the B&O Railroad Museum, and her team have discovered that the Mount Clare station was used by at least 20 confirmed freedom-seekers heading north to escape slavery.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
Marilyn Mosby Says She's Innocent In Federal Fraud Case, Vows To Clear Her Name
Baltimore’s top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby made a short statement and vowed to beat the four felony charges the federal government brought against her following their lengthy investigation into her personal finances.
Watch her statement below:
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal perjury charge
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been indicated by a federal grand jury on charges of perjury related to a COVID-19 financial hardship withdrawal and a false statement on a loan application.
This comes amid an ongoing federal investigation involving Mosby and her husband, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, over campaign records.
In March federal prosecutors started investigating the personal business and tax records of the Mosbys. Federal officials subpoenaed the Maryland State Board of Elections seeking business and campaign finance records dating back to 2014.
Federal prosecutors subpoenaed records from Marilyn Mosby’s campaign, along with Nick and Marilyn’s business records.As part of the investigation, federal prosecutors requested tax returns, bank statements and loan documents.
The couple’s lawyer, A. Scott Bolden, issued a statement calling the investigation a “political witch hunt.”
“My clients are progressive change agents, making them unfair targets of unnecessary scrutiny by federal investigators. Nevertheless, I can assure you and the people of Baltimore, they have done nothing illegal, inappropriate or unlawful,” he said.
Monday, October 04, 2021
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott test positive for Covid-19
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott's Director of Communications, Cal Harris released the following statement on the mayor testing positive for Covid-19:
“Mayor Scott tested positive for COVID-19 late this morning, and is currently self-isolating at his home in Northeast Baltimore. The Mayor is asymptomatic and currently feels fine. He will work remotely until he is officially cleared to return to City Hall.
“The Mayor regularly gets tested for COVID-19 to safeguard the health of City Hall colleagues and Baltimoreans he meets in the community. His test results came back negative last Friday, however he received two positive tests today. Mayor Scott is proactively working with the Baltimore City Health Department’s contact tracing units to notify colleagues he came across at outdoor events this past weekend.
“This serves as another reminder of the vast challenges faced by the ongoing global pandemic. Despite being vaccinated and following Baltimore City’s health protocols, breakthrough infections are a real threat. This could have been a different situation if Mayor Scott were not vaccinated, which is why he continues to work closely with Commissioner Dzirasa to support ongoing vaccination efforts across Baltimore.”
Friday, August 20, 2021
Ava Griffin and Milan Miller are missing!
MARYLAND-The Baltimore Police Department needs your help locating 3-year-old Milan Miller and 31-year-old Ava Griffin. They were last seen together, in the 1600 block of Brentwood Avenue on August 19, 2021. Ava Griffin may be driving a white Volvo with Maryland tags 23067CK.
According to investigators, Ava Griffin is the aunt of the 3 year-old.
3-year-old Milan Miller is 3- feet tall and weighs about 45 pounds.
31-year-old Ava Griffin is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Milan Miller and Ava Griffin is urged to contact the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Section at, (410) 396-2100 or simply dial 911.
Saturday, August 07, 2021
Baltimore mayor, Brandon Scott reinstates face mask mandate for everyone
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is reinstating a face mask mandate as of 9 a.m. Monday for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Sionjae Williams is Missing
Police in Baltimore are searching for a missing homeless woman who is known to frequent the city’s downtown.
Sionjae Williams, 32, was last seen in the 2200 block of Maryland Avenue, the Baltimore Police Department said. She’s five-foot-seven and weighs around 108 pounds.
Anyone who sees her should call police at 443-384-7385 or 911.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
36 year-old Brandon Scott sworn in as Mayor of Baltimore
Brandon Scott, a 36-year-old Democrat, was sworn-in as Baltimore’s new mayor Tuesday afternoon in a private ceremony inside City Hall.
Scott, who’s the city’s 52nd mayor, is starting his new job at a historically tough time. The city has recorded more than 300 homicides for the sixth year in a row, and its population, businesses and tax revenues have not been spared by the coronavirus pandemic.
Watch the story below:
Saturday, July 25, 2020
Baltimore City State Attorney Marilyn Mosby: Federal agents sent to Baltimore will be prosecuted
Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby took to Twitter to make it clear that any militarized federal agents sent to Baltimore City to attack our citizens by making illegal arrests, kidnapping people, assaulting them, or committing any other crime will be prosecuted by her office.
“If President Trump sends militarized federal agents to Baltimore City to attack our citizens by making illegal arrests, kidnapping people, assaulting them, or committing any other crime, they will be prosecuted by my office.” https://t.co/FvoTKoXK1w
— Marilyn J. Mosby (@MarilynMosbyEsq) July 23, 2020
Saturday, February 08, 2020
Kweisi Mfume wins Democratic nomination to replace the late Elijah Cummings
Kweisi Mfume took a major step toward reclaiming the Baltimore-area U.S. House seat he held for 10 years, capturing the Democratic nomination to succeed his longtime friend, the powerful Elijah Cummings.
The former NAACP leader, 71, topped a field of 24 Democrats Tuesday to advance to an April 28 special general election to fill the remainder of Cummings’ 7th Congressional District term.
Mfume represented the district, which includes parts of Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County, until stepping down in 1996 to lead the NAACP.
“I want to thank all the many people of the 7th Congressional District. I accept your nomination,” Mfume told an audience of a few hundred cheering supporters at The Forum, a banquet hall in northwest Baltimore. A half-dozen American flags were positioned on the stage where he spoke.
Mfume enjoyed high name recognition, particularly among older voters who remembered him as a congressman and, earlier, a member of Baltimore City Council. That helped him in an 11-week campaign in which most other candidates struggled to get attention.
Mfume was able to raise money for the race — he had more than $200,000 on hand as of Jan. 15 — and he spent much less than his competitors.
He told voters his congressional priorities would include lowering the cost of prescription drugs, improving the Affordable Care Act health care system, and reinstating a federal assault weapons ban.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Baltimore courthouse to be named after late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings
The city of Baltimore will formally name a courthouse after the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in the first half of 2020.
Democratic Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young unveiled renderings Friday of bronze plaques that will be affixed to the exterior of Courthouse East of the Baltimore Circuit Court. One includes an image and biography of the congressman, and the other reads “Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse.”
"Elijah was a son of Baltimore. He was proud of Baltimore," his widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, said during the unveiling ceremony. "His career as a legal professional started in this courthouse."
Young spokesman James Bentley said the plaques will be installed in the spring or early summer after the city receives approval from the U.S. Department of Interior because the courthouse is a federal building. It was originally a federal courthouse, and still contains a post office.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Baltimore Boxer Gervonta Davis Offers To Cover Funeral Costs For Destiny Harrison
Two time boxing champion Gervonta Davis is preparing for a chance to win another world title this Saturday, but on Thursday he took a moment to make a huge gesture by offering to cover the funeral costs for a 21-year-old Baltimore woman, Destiny Harrison, who was fatally shot inside her own hair salon over the weekend.
“I’m just hearing about this sadness,” Davis, also a Baltimore native, tweeted on Thursday. “Prayers and love to her family. If I can do anything like pay for the funeral or anything like that..Reach out!”
Davis later posted an Instagram story later that night appeared to confirm that the funeral payment had been made. Davis’ coach later confirmed the news with WJZ-CBS Baltimore, noting that the story had really touched the boxer.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings will run for Elijah Cummings seat in Congress
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings announces that she will run for her late husband Elijah Cummings' 7th District Congressional seat.
Maryland Democratic Party Chairwoman Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, is running for her husband’s seat, arguing Monday she is the best option to carry out his legacy and continue his vision.
“I am, of course, devastated at the loss of my spouse, but his spirit is with me,” Rockeymoore Cummings, 48, said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun. “I’m going to run this race and I’m going to run it hard, as if he’s still right here by my side.”
Cummings, who had cancer, died Oct. 17 after serving more than two decades in Congress. He left a record of fighting for the needy and battling the administration of Republican President Donald Trump.
Rockeymoore Cummings, a public policy consultant who is founder of the Washington consulting firm Global Policy Solutions LLC and a former 2018 candidate for governor, said her husband told her months before he died he would like for her to succeed him.
“That was a discussion we had some months ago,” she said. “In the end, he was conflicted about whether he should resign or stay in office. We thought there might be a turnaround. It didn’t happen.”
Rockeymoore Cummings plans to kick off her campaign Tuesday at her home office in Baltimore’s Madison Park neighborhood. She said she will focus on issues important to the late congressman, such as battling the opioid crisis and “fighting for the soul of our democracy” against the Trump administration, but also on her areas of expertise, which include health and education policy.
Candidates must file by Nov. 20 to run in a special Feb. 4 primary for Cummings’ 7th District seat, which includes parts of the city of Baltimore and areas of Baltimore and Howard counties. The special election will be April 28, the same day as a regular primary for all of Maryland’s U.S. House seats. Candidates who want to fill Cummings’ seat through the rest of his term, until January 2021, and win the seat for the next two years after that, must run in both the special and regular elections.
Monday, November 04, 2019
Kweisi Mfume announces he is running for Elijah Cummings seat
Kweisi Mfume announced Monday he’s running to succeed the late Rep. Elijah Cummings in the Maryland congressional seat the former NAACP president also held for a nearly a decade in the 1980s and 1990s.
In a speech Monday at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture in Baltimore, Mfume, 71, said he will seek the Democratic nomination to return to his old seat and pledged to continue Cummings’ legacy.
“I honestly believe that I’ve got to find a way to make sure that all he and others fought for is not lost, tossed to the side or forgotten,” Mfume said.
Mfume, a graduate of Morgan State University and John Hopkins University, served on the Baltimore City Council before being elected to represent Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in 1986. The district encompasses parts of Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County. He was succeeded by Cummings.
In the speech announcing his candidacy, Mfume touted his experience.
“Trust me, if I were not trusted, prepared and ready to go go work on day one, I would not be here,” he said.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Baltimore mayor looks to rename courthouse after Elijah Cummings
Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young (D) said Friday that he wants to rename a downtown courthouse building after the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
Young will reportedly file legislation “as quickly as possible” with the Baltimore City Council to rename the Courthouse East building after the congressman, who represented Maryland’s 7th congressional district that includes roughly half of the city, The Baltimore Sun reported.
If it passes, the city-run building would become the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse.
“It is most fitting that this building, in which Congressman Cummings fought for justice for his fellow citizens early in his career as an attorney, be named in his honor," Young told the Sun in a statement. "It will stand in perpetuity as a monument to Cummings’ service to the common man, the rule of law in our society, and his commitment to economic justice for all.”
Young said the decision came about after a meeting with local officials and other community members that focused on how to honor the longtime lawmaker, who he praised as one of Baltimore’s “greatest voices and staunchest advocates.”
Monday, July 29, 2019
Al Sharpton smacks down Trump for calling him a con man
President Donald Trump, after a weekend of attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his Baltimore-area district, began Monday by blasting the Rev. Al Sharpton as someone who "hates whites and cops." and calling him a con man.
Sharpton came back with a witty and biting response:
NEW: Rev. Al Sharpton responds to Pres. Trump's attack this morning: "If he really thought I was a con man, he'd be nominating me for his Cabinet." https://t.co/07y027HWeS pic.twitter.com/014y5jCELb
— ABC News (@ABC) July 29, 2019