Posted on 12/11/24
| News Source: FOX45
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 11, 2024 - Marilyn Mosby is once again asking for permission to travel for work, and this time the defense filed a new motion asking Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to allow Mosby to travel to Texas on a business trip.
The former top prosecutor in Baltimore City now serves as Director of Global Strategic Planning at an undisclosed California-based company. According to her defense, Mosby has been directed by the company’s CEO to travel to Texas between Dec. 15 and Dec. 18 to attend meetings and tour a facility that her company is considering buying.
Mosby’s attorney, James Wyda, argues that “she has been fully compliant with the home detention condition as well as other conditions of supervised release for her entire period of supervised release - more than six months to date.”
Mosby’s defense team initially filed the request with her Probation Officer, Rachel Snyder, on Thursday, Dec. 5, according to the latest court filings. A day later, Snyder sent an email to Mosby requesting more information about her business trip and notifying her team that she would be on leave and would handle the request “next week.”
Shortly after on that same day, Mosby answered all of Snyder’s nine questions regarding her travel plans, Wyda explained. Snyder received the response, but noted Mosby’s team that she was still on leave and had not had enough time to review the request.
Failing to get a decision from Snyder, Mosby’s defense then proceeded to file a motion with the Court on Monday, Dec. 9, citing the urgency of her request “because she cannot begin to make accommodations for her travel next week until this Court grants her motion.”
"Although Ms. Mosby followed all required procedures by timely requesting approval for employment-related travel, those plans are now in jeopardy because her probation officer is on leave, and thus has not been able to review the travel request for multiple days now,” Mosby’s defense claimed.
As noted by Snyder in an email to Mosby, travel requests must be submitted a minimum of two weeks in advance, according to the defense's latest filings. Since Mosby was only notified about her business trip 11 days prior to the expected travel date, Mosby's team failed to meet the Court’s demands, the documents outlined.
Mosby’s defense called the two-week advance notice requirement “unreasonable and unworkable.”
"Ms. Mosby’s travel is not for planned vacation, but business travel which she cannot always plan at least two-weeks in advance,” reads the motion.
On Wednesday, Dec. 11, Judge Griggsby responded to Mosby's request, asking her to send the trip's itinerary and daily schedule by 5 p.m. that same day. Until that happens, Judge Griggsby said she would pause a decision on the request.
Mosby’s defense has repeatedly asked Judge Griggsby to replace her home detention with a curfew in light of her new job position. Judge Griggsby denied both of her requests, and Mosby remains under home detention.
Mosby was convicted on two federal counts of perjury and one count of federal mortgage fraud following two trials ending in early 2024. While Mosby has maintained her innocence throughout the trials, a jury determined she lied when she withdrew money from her city retirement account penalty free, claiming she suffered an adverse financial hardship stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
A separate jury convicted Mosby on one count of mortgage fraud stemming from the purchase of a Florida vacation home. The convictions came after a years-long legal saga that started with her federal indictment while she served as the top prosecutor in Baltimore City. She began her 12-month home detention sentence in June.