Ex-Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced in federal court for perjury and false mortgage application convictions After coming to national prominence for charging six police officers in connection to the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, she is due to be sentenced in federal court Thursday following convictions for ... 05/23/2024 - 3:11 am | View Link
Ex-Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore is to be sentenced this week for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. 05/23/2024 - 12:08 am | View Link
On her clemency quest, some say Marilyn Mosby is leaving out key facts May 7, 2024 — Pardon request In a May 7 letter to Biden, more than a dozen civil rights groups, led by the NAACP, call on the administration to intervene in Mosby’s case, describing her conviction as ... 05/22/2024 - 10:43 am | View Link
On the eve of Marilyn Mosby’s criminal sentencing, fact-checking her claims of a “witch hunt” After charges prompted by an investigation she requested and ending with two jury convictions in a venue of her choosing, Baltimore’s former state’s attorney still claims she is the victim of a racist ... 05/22/2024 - 4:23 am | View Link
Watch: White House reacts to update on pardon request for Marilyn Mosby The Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to the White House in support of a pardon for Marilyn Mosby, former state’s attorney in Baltimore. The White House and the Justice Department ... 05/15/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
A congressional committee on Wednesday scaled back a U. S. military proposal that would have allowed it to force the transfer of potentially hundreds of Colorado Air National Guard members to the Space Force.
Gov. Jared Polis and several members of the state’s congressional delegation had protested the proposal, which is intended to help staff up the newest military branch by allowing it to absorb state-led units involved in space operations.
“The new leader of Taiwan barely had time to unpack his presidential office before China’s military surrounded the island on Thursday, in a large-scale show of force that risks locking the two sides in a fresh cycle of escalation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Growing mistrust of Beijing helped propel Lai Ching-te to the presidency, which he assumed earlier this week.
“Since the first American shipments of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine, President Biden has never wavered on one prohibition: President Volodymyr Zelensky had to agree to never fire them into Russian territory, insisting that would violate Mr. Biden’s mandate to ‘avoid World War III,’” the New York Times reports.
“But the consensus around that policy is fraying.
A key adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stepping away from his presidential campaign, citing an “increasingly hateful and divisive atmosphere” that “no longer aligns with my values,” the New York Times reports.
“Angela Stanton King, the campaign’s adviser for Black engagement, announced her departure in a statement on social media on Tuesday evening, five months after she was added to the campaign’s payroll.”