Federal prosecutors warn they will seize Marilyn Mosby’s Florida home if she’s convicted

Federal prosecutors warned Friday in a new court filing they intend to seize Marilyn Mosby’s more than $475,000 Gulf Coast home if she’s convicted at trial next month of making false statements on loan applications.

Mosby bought the vacation condo in Longboat Key, Florida, outside Sarasota in February of last year. The outgoing Baltimore state’s attorney is scheduled for trial in September on federal charges of perjury and making false statements on loan applications.

Federal prosecutors accuse her of a sequence of dishonest financial maneuvers that allowed her to tap into her 457(B) retirement savings early to buy the condo, as well as a more than $500,000 home outside Orlando. She sold the eight-bedroom home in November for a profit of about $150,000.

“This is not surprising. It’s more overkill and overzealousness by the prosecutor,” her attorney A. Scott Bolden said Friday. “They want to seize the property she bought with her own 457(B) funds. That’s ridiculous.”

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Friday’s court filing was the first time prosecutors disclosed they would try and seize her Florida condo.

Prosecutors previously wrote in court records filed in March that they would seek forfeiture of “any property constituting or derived from, proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of the offense,” and that property “included but was not limited to a money judgment representing the proceeds she obtained as a result of her convictions.”

Mosby has denied wrongdoing and blamed the U.S. Attorney’s Office for unfairly singling her out because of her gender, race and progressive politics. A federal judge was not persuaded by her claims and ordered her case to trial. Her jury trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 19 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

“I’m looking forward to fully defending my client,” Bolden said.

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Mosby lost the Democratic primary election last month to defense attorney Ivan Bates.

Reporter Justin Fenton contributed to this article.

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