Days after being charged with federal perjury, Baltimore’s top prosecutor made an extraordinary appearance at church on Sunday – begging for “prayers” to help her in the “fight” of her life.

State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, 41, read a nearly five-minute address from her cell phone to the congregation at Empowerment Temple AME Church as congregants formed a prayer circle around her, a live broadcast video of the service broadcasts.

“We can certainly use your prayers,” Mosby said as she stood alongside her husband, Baltimore City Council Speaker Nick Mosby.

“As a family, we are in the fight of our lives,” she said.

Mosby was brought to the front by the Reverend Robert Turner, who prayed that the Lord would “bring true justice” and “protect” Mosby from “those who seek to kill and destroy her.”

“I want us to bless this sister,” he said, even offering to financially support the beleaguered prosecutor, who was indicted Thursday on federal charges of perjury and filing false mortgage applications.

He told the service that Mosby did not know he was bringing her in advance, although she read his entire statement from a cellphone.

Mosby was applauded in church as she repeated her earlier statement that ‘unequivocally, I am innocent of the charges against me’.

“I have done nothing wrong, and I am confident that I will be exonerated and my name will be cleared,” she said.

“Despite the death threats, the hate mail, the constant media attacks, the lawsuits, the scrutiny of every dollar in my bank account, I’m still here. I’m still standing. And I’m still blessed,” he said. she said and swore she would “keep fighting.”

“I love this city. I love the people of this city. And I will never stop fighting for each and every one of you,” she read.

During her speech in the prayer circle, Mosby told the pastor that she was unable to accept his offer of financial aid, which he trumpeted as proof of his “integrity.”

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Mosby, the state’s attorney elected in 2015, is accused of twice claiming to have suffered work-related financial hardship from COVID-19 in order to request two early withdrawals totaling $90,000 from her retirement account. his city employee.

Prosecutors said Mosby used the money she received — $36,000 in May 2020 and $45,000 on December 31 of the same year — for down payments on vacation homes in Kissimmee and Long Boat Key.

The two counts of perjury stem from Mosby’s allegedly false statements about financial hardship related to the coronavirus at a time when she was earning a gross annual salary of nearly $248,000 in total, the indictment alleges.

She is also charged with two counts of misrepresenting mortgage applications soliciting a total of more than $900,000 in loans to purchase the properties in Florida. The indictment says Mosby failed to disclose federal tax arrears, which resulted in a $45,000 lien imposed by the Internal Revenue Service in 2020.

The prosecutor denied all allegations, saying she had been the victim of a ‘ploy’ by political adversaries seeking to overthrow her and was determined to ‘fight with every ounce of my being and clear my name’.

With post wires