In a February legal filing, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby blamed her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby, for her statement on a mortgage application that failed to disclose a $45,000 IRS lien.
Defending herself against false statement charges in her federal indictment, Mosby said her husband had lied – telling her the tax lien had been paid off when it hadn’t been.
Now federal prosecutors are saying, in a motion filed prior to next month’s trial, that Marilyn Mosby’s claim to be an “innocent spouse” is a lie.
They say that in January 2021 Mosby’s personal lawyer sent to the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission an installment agreement with the IRS covering the debt the couple jointly owed for unpaid taxes.
Mosby was copied on the letter, part of the back-and-forth over the commission’s confidential investigation into Mosby’s finances.
Yet just eight days later, Mosby was signing a mortgage document for a $476,000 condominium at Longboat Key, Florida, in which she said she did not owe any federal debt.
“Far from believing that her husband had paid everything off, the Defendant’s counsel’s statements . . . show the Defendant was well aware of the tax debt she and her husband owed the IRS and the existence of a plan to repay it,” prosecutors wrote in a filing last Friday before U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby.
The payment plan called on the Mosbys to make monthly payments of $776 to the IRS starting in February 2019….
